pete m wrote:
> On Apr 11, 11:34 am, Martin Bazley <mar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, the words of pete m
>> filtered slowly through the cosmos...
>>
>>> I agree; since Windows 2000 came out, Windows has been pretty
>>> stable. Windows XP almost never crashes; certainly no more often
>>> than I've seen X11 hang.
>>
>> What Windoze does which really annoys me is not so much crash as
>> hang. If you even do so much as click on two different buttons in
>> quick succession, the computer can lock up for about a minute.
>>
>> Oh, and have you ever noticed how they get slower with age? A five
>> year old PC can easily take five minutes just to show a start
>> button, and at least another two after that to recognise clicks on
>> it.
>
> That shouldn't happen. Do you have AV & spyware programs installed?
> And do you use the disk defragmenter occasionally? Both are reasons
> your performance can degrade.
So is having too many services running, too many things in the system
tray, et cetera - in effect, just too many things running period. That
kind of slowdown tends, in my somewhat limited experience as a computer
tech in a public school system, to be a symptom of excessive swap use
and therefore of excessive RAM use.
Defragmenting can help, especially when the disk is closer to full, but
I've seen much more success in alleviating this kind of problem by
uninstalling (or otherwise turning off) as much as could be gotten away
with.
To a certain extent, however, what you describe seems to me to be just
Windows accumulating cruft. I've certainly never seen a non-Windows
computer do the same thing that I recall.
--
The Wanderer
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