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Title: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Ruzbeh on October 10, 2007, 03:35:47 PM
Let me start this thread by saying:

-I fucking hate Winblows XP.
-I fucking HATE MICROSOFT.

I'd like to know why this shit is slowing down FOR ABSOLUTELY FUCKING REASON. After about a few months from a Windows XP install, it starts to slow down gradually. I'm talking about loading apps and the sort. People just STFU and usually format and reinstall but I read somewhere that this has something to do with the registry. If so, what can I do to fix this?

I swear I'm having flashbacks of Windows ME with this shit. Don't tell me to defrag my system because that doesn't do shit. At least, not anything major. I want big improvements like you experience with a clean install of WINXP not some incremental shit.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Synbios459 on October 10, 2007, 03:52:08 PM
I think there's something else wrong with your comp, I've never heard of XP just suddenly getting worse for no reason.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: DJ_Tet on October 10, 2007, 03:55:58 PM
I usually do 2-3 fresh installs a year.  Downloading/erasing/installing/uninstalling all just tears Windows apart.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Candyflip on October 10, 2007, 04:02:16 PM
What do you people do to your computers? I don't think I've reformatted this computer once, and I've had it for at least 2 years. I leave it on for days at a time too.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: demi on October 10, 2007, 04:06:49 PM
Probably your dad jerking off to some ladyboys
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 10, 2007, 04:13:51 PM
fucking download a registry cleaner, smackwit

then download and run spybot, ccleaner, and ad-aware

lastly, go to a command prompt and type "defrag"

then go cry because you fail at technology
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Candyflip on October 10, 2007, 04:15:09 PM
NOD32
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 10, 2007, 04:29:29 PM
my roommate had some really insidious viruses/spyware on his XP laptop.  The standard cleaning programs weren't enough, and he had to do a lot of manual bugzapping.  he's a very experienced professional Windows administrator/developer and I can't imagine a "normal" person being able to accomplish what he did.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: DJ_Tet on October 10, 2007, 04:32:43 PM
fucking download a registry cleaner, smackwit

then download and run spybot, ccleaner, and ad-aware

lastly, go to a command prompt and type "defrag"

then go cry because you fail at technology

My machines are clean as a whistle and they still slow down.  Of course, I transfer tens of gigs of info a month and never defrag, but I have Windows on a seperate partition, it shouldn't be affected by fragged data there. 


edit:  Real answer is to burn an install disc with all the programs you use, so you can reinstall windows quickly and painlessly. 
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 10, 2007, 05:25:35 PM
Never change Ruzbeh  :lol
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 10, 2007, 05:26:32 PM
I have Vista defrag every morning at 3am
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 10, 2007, 09:40:28 PM
what kind of year is "XP", anyway?  It's not a numeral, not even a roman numeral!  It's some kind of Christian propaganda or something.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: demi on October 10, 2007, 10:04:27 PM
I have Vista defrag every morning at 3am

Do you realize Linux never needs any defragmentation?

Because there's nothing to do on Linux
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 10, 2007, 10:10:36 PM
Quote
Because there's nothing to do on Linux
   
There is this (http://pauillac.inria.fr/coq/).  More fun and addictive than any other 'game' I've ever played, plus its name provides endless fodder for dumb humor and/or awkwardness.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 10, 2007, 10:32:24 PM
Linux is useless for 90% of the people who use computers lol
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 10, 2007, 10:51:52 PM
have you actually done any computer-assisted theorem proving using dependent types?  don't knock it until you've tried it!
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: demi on October 10, 2007, 11:04:12 PM
I'm on Windows, why are you asking me? I do other stuff besides web browsing.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 11, 2007, 12:57:40 AM
if you don't like defragging, upgrade yer file system to ntfs, doofus. fat32 is fragmentation hell.
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 11, 2007, 12:59:30 AM
have you actually done any computer-assisted theorem proving using dependent types?  don't knock it until you've tried it!

i somehow got into mucking about with it in a grad-level numerical methods class, at least until i realized it would lead to a lingering heat-death of the soul
Title: Re: Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?
Post by: Wobedraggled on October 11, 2007, 10:38:35 AM
Windows is fucking broken, that's why.