Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> I'll admit to some curiosity here as to what's slowing down Windows
> programs within the Windows OS,
Too many unnecessary services. To much "digital rights" type paranoia.
Grossly inefficient paging and cache operations. Too much of an
obsession with creating a digital paper trail, using the registry as
dumping ground for auditing. Drivers, services and programs that pull in
vast hoards of runtime just-in-case "dependencies" as a kind of
aggressive pre-fetch/readahead operation, so MS can say "oh look at how
fast product 'X' launches", at the expense of what might otherwise be a
lean and efficient system overall (too many assumptions about what the
user /might/ do next). How shall I count the ways.
> and how to determine it.
Sysinternals used to make some tools that helped in that regard. They've
since been assimilated by the Vole though, so it's debatable whether or
not such tools still reveal the whole truth of what's really going on in
that murky underworld known as the Windows Operating System.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
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| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
00:38:21 up 74 days, 23:33, 2 users, load average: 0.63, 0.28, 0.19
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