GeminiDaddy
MIS
I'm not trying to rant against microsoft, but I have been ussing windows systems for a long time now, and I 've noticed that when you have a brand new system, it flies along for about 6 months or so, and the longer you keep the system, the more degraded the performance becomes, until it's at the point where its so slow as to almost be unusable. I have a pretty new dell laptop running XP, and I was optimistic, but it seems like its fate is becoming just like the rest of the windows systms I've had.
I do things like disk cleanup and defrag, but it seldom does anything. In fact, I when my dell laptop started acting a little slow, I ran a thorough defrag and system cleanup, and I swear the performance is even worse. I have also found in the past that completely wiping out the hardrive and reinstalling everything ususally returns the system to its inital quick running state, but its just not practical most of the time -
My Questions then:
1. Is it just me - do others out there notice similar?
2. What else can i do tweak the performance without wiping everything out and starting from scratch?
pain makes man think. thought makes man wise. wisdom makes life endurable
I do things like disk cleanup and defrag, but it seldom does anything. In fact, I when my dell laptop started acting a little slow, I ran a thorough defrag and system cleanup, and I swear the performance is even worse. I have also found in the past that completely wiping out the hardrive and reinstalling everything ususally returns the system to its inital quick running state, but its just not practical most of the time -
My Questions then:
1. Is it just me - do others out there notice similar?
2. What else can i do tweak the performance without wiping everything out and starting from scratch?
pain makes man think. thought makes man wise. wisdom makes life endurable