Sorry, this is a repost topic.

[Bad Dude]

I don't know how many times that I reinstalled this OS. As time goes on, opening applications takes longer and longer each time. After about 3 months, right after rebooted, I try to open an application and it some times takes up to 10 seconds before something starts to move. Why is this? This does not happen right after I install it new. The thing is that I don't install or uninstall any new applications.
Anyone knows if there is a site to optimize windows XP and keep it running the same over time?
This really bug me.

I got an overclock 2.53Ghz@3.06Ghz, 1Ghz of RAM and plenty of of HD space. I wonder if IDE RAID would do this to me over time.
Thanks.


I just figure out the problem. The answer is a click away.

Just when I thought I found the answer first, someone beat me to it.

 

[Rkonster]

I hope you defrag...

 

[Lord Evermore]

Plenty of sites to optimize, but there's not a whole lot that can keep it from collecting cruft. Are you installing all the Windows Updates?

Are you defragging regularly? Are you using FAT32 or NTFS?

The only easy way to speed it up is not to install it.

 

[drag]

Probably the easiest way is to just reinstall it every few months... maybe make a image of the OS after you get it installed and configured and keep it on a backup harddrive or something

 

[Lord Evermore]

That's the easiest way, but certainly not best. The best thing would be to figure out what's happening and stop it.

 

[Bad Dude]

Yes I defrag every week. Oh, this is what I was afraid of, nothing much I can do.
Thanks guys.

 

[Bad Dude]

I just figure out the problem. The answer is a click away.

 

[drag]

hehe don't worry about it to much, i was speaking more tongue-in-cheek. The best you can do is just establish a good baseline. Don't install anything you are not going to use in a daily basis, don't use the various "free" apps that may come with your hardware. Pick one good program to do each thing. Keep it slim and as clean as possible. If you install stuff put it on a different partition from your long term storage stuff and OS files etc etc

 

[Lord Evermore]

Well holy crap. I'd just installed that patch on the 23rd, and noticed that a lot of apps were loading very slowly. But I didn't notice it immediately, because after the patch I installed DiskKeeper 7.0 and ran a full defrag, then did a boot-time defrag for all the "unmovable" stuff. After that, stuff was slow and I wondered whether it was just due to the defrag causing Windows to have to retrack application loading and it would go away, or what.

Of course, now they'll once again have to patch their patch.

Just removed the patch. Then reinstalled the patches that came out after that just to be sure they weren't screwed up by removing the first one. Definitely a huge difference in load times for apps.

 

[jamautosound]

Wow, thanks.

Just this week I was thinking "time to reinstall again"


Thanks Bad_Dude!

 

[Bad Dude]

bump for those who do not know.

 

[TheCorm]

Subscribing so that I can check this out at home...and a bump to spread the word...

 

[RVN]

Anyone experiencing internet slowdowns after the 813489 cumulative patch for ie6 sp1 dated April 23rd?

 

[dfarrales]

ok, tough question here =)...

how do you check for the patch and how do you remove it?

thx...Deo

 

[eklass]

wow, and to think if i didn't read about the faulty hotfix on every comptuer news site, it's even in the anandtech forums... multiple times. go figure

 

[Bad Dude]

dfarrales,
Go to your control panel, add/remove programs, pick out the hotfix to remove. It will warn you that certain programs will not work if removed, just do it anyway, no problem.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Hey guess what, eklass, not everyone reads computer news sites that are known for regurgitating all the generic, bland, dumbed down information that they got from some other site.

I personally have seen nothing about this other than this thread. It certainly can't hurt anything to be repeated.