Why is my computer slowing down?
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| I’ve had a lot of students and teachers come to me with this question lately.
| An entire generation of computers that were cheap but decent a couple of
| years ago (think Celerons and P4s with a quarter to a half gig of RAM) have
| begun to crawl under Windows XP in the last few months.
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| [...]
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| Whether it’s because the install base is too small for hackers to bother
| writing “Linux malware” or because Linux is inherently more secure than XP,
| most flavors of Linux work quite nicely on single-core hardware without
| intrusive anti-malware utilities. Even if this only gives the illusion of
| speed, the users, students, and parents I’ve converted have certainly managed
| to extend the life of computers they would have otherwise tried to replace.
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http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1487
Related:
Why Does Windows Get Slower Over Time?
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| The natural impulse is to blame Windows itself. The phenomenon is so
| well known and widespread that some in the industry have even coined a
| term for it: "Windows rot." The idea is that, for lack of a specific
| cause, Windows just performs worse the longer you use it.
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http://www.playfuls.com/news_06892_Why_Does_Windows_Get_Slower_Over_Time.html
Windows XP OS is really quite a crock
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| It's amazing that Microsoft built-in a disk defragger into Windows XP,
| but it didn't get around to building an operating system defragger.
|
| [...]
|
| Are there better ways to clean up and speed up a Windows XP? Sure,
| there are plenty of different techniques and options, but if
| Microsoft had some smarts, they'd build a lean-and-mean Vista
| (since XP is now "legacy") for laptops and desktops without all
| the assorted crap that they've built in over the years.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38834
The Importance Cleaning Windows XP
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| On a Windows machine, virtual junk is referred to the countless garbage data
| stored on hard drives during normal usage. These files include a build up of
| needless temporary Internet and operating system files, Internet cookies,
| misplaced or old documents, and the dirtiest system of them all: the Windows
| Registry.
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http://feedelite.com/2007/12/07/the-importance-cleaning-windows-xp/
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