Anyone experience Windows XP slowing down after a period of time?

[LordJezo]

I have heard people talking about how after a few months of usage XP performance degrades to a horriable crawl until they reinstall XP...

Anyone know anything about this?

 

[jfall]

I've had mine for about 6 months now and it seems to run just like it did when I first installed it. To be honest, I think this is the only OS that has ever worked this well for me.

 

[Demonicon]

I've had XP since it came out, and it has been running great since then. With every other OS i've had I felt the need to format and re-install every month or so, I don't get that feeling with XP.

Make sure you have 512MB of RAM, XP sucks without it.

 

[kendogg]

running winxp on a gig of rambus pc800 accompanied by p4 2.2ghz .. its runs quick

 

[dbwillis]

Still running very fast here.....same install since December..512mb's and a 2.133 ghz P4 (1.6a OC)

 

[logear1]

they might want to try emptying the "prefetch" folder occaisionally

 

[Skawttey]

The only thing slow about XP that i have found is shut down, which has been slow ever since i installed it

 

[Saltin]

Everyone that runs XP started on the same foot (i.e the same install). The choices people make after that start directly effect the performance of the OS/system

Some people make wise choices

Other people......choose poorly.

 

[Mrburns2007]

I've had problems with xp slowing down to the point where I have reinstalled it. I was very surprised after re-installing how fast it is when freshly installed. Of course it's still no match for windows 2000 which is currently the fastest OS M$ has put out.

 

[Dreadogg]

<< Everyone that runs XP started on the same foot (i.e the same install). The choices people make after that start directly effect the performance of the OS/system >>

Let it be known this is so true! But I sometimes make some bad choices so I ushally install every 6 months as a matter of fact I usshally Have the same Os installed to a different partition so when I feel bored, I just install some apps on it so when it is time to move to a new Os It is already! Or you could just ghost it and reinstall like every day!

 

[Blurry]

I think there was a problem with XP when Explorer suddenly gobbles up all your resources and CPU speed.

 

[Doh!]

I just run vmware to try out applications before installing in the primary os.

 

[renorocks]

I have been running xp for appx 6 mos with no problems. I am very carefull when installing apps as to what they put in the startup folder / registry run folder / prefetch folder. Try making an image when you get xp running the way you want it, that way you won't have to go through a windows re-nstall.