Why does Windows XP slow down after months of use?

[Ruzbeh]

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.

[Synbios459]

I think there's something else wrong with your comp, I've never heard of XP just suddenly getting worse for no reason.

[DJ_Tet]

I usually do 2-3 fresh installs a year.  Downloading/erasing/installing/uninstalling all just tears Windows apart.

[Candyflip]

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.

[demi]

Probably your dad jerking off to some ladyboys

[Van Cruncheon]

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

[Candyflip]

NOD32

[recursivelyenumerable]

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.

[DJ_Tet]

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. 

[Phoenix Dark]

Never change Ruzbeh 

[MrAngryFace]

I have Vista defrag every morning at 3am

[recursivelyenumerable]

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.

[demi]

I have Vista defrag every morning at 3am

Do you realize Linux never needs any defragmentation?

Because there's nothing to do on Linux

[recursivelyenumerable]

Because there's nothing to do on Linux
   

There is this.  More fun and addictive than any other 'game' I've ever played, plus its name provides endless fodder for dumb humor and/or awkwardness.

[MrAngryFace]

Linux is useless for 90% of the people who use computers lol

[recursivelyenumerable]

have you actually done any computer-assisted theorem proving using dependent types?  don't knock it until you've tried it!

[demi]

I'm on Windows, why are you asking me? I do other stuff besides web browsing.

[Van Cruncheon]

if you don't like defragging, upgrade yer file system to ntfs, doofus. fat32 is fragmentation hell.

[Van Cruncheon]

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

[Wobedraggled]

Windows is fucking broken, that's why.