18 Jan
2010
18 Jan
'10
10:40 p.m.
On 18 Jan 2010 at 17:12, Charles E. Fox wrote:
In my limited experience the reason that
Windows computers
slow down with time is that the average "user" lets every program or
game that he installs insert itself into the START menu. I have found
up to 48 programs there. A little free program like Winpatrol will let
them keep it under control, but most of them are not that technically
inclined.
The big problem that I see with Windows is that any program that's
installed insinuates itself throughout the system. It copies DLLs
into the system folder, makes changes to the registry and may even
spawn system processes. It's like crabgrass in your lawn.
I try to keep my Windows systems running with minimum slowdown by
putting applications, data and as much non-system related stuff on a
different partition when I install. It helps, but a system reload
usually entails re-installing everything again. Why the decision
was made against "compartmentalizing" the changes that applications
make to the system, is something I've never had satisfactory
explained.
When an application is uninstalled, it almost always leaves a pile of
detritus behind in the registry.
--Chuck