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has anyone noticed that windows is so much faster right after you've
just installed it? even after only a month of using it, it seems
sluggish. any ideas on this?
 
has anyone noticed that windows is so much faster right after you've
just installed it? even after only a month of using it, it seems
sluggish. any ideas on this?
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That's because of all the stuff you've loaded since install time, especially
virus scanners and firewalls. Disconnect your machine from the Internet,
then run msconfig and select the Startup tab. Now untick each and
every task, reboot, then note how the speed is back to what it used
to be. Services can be another source of slow performance. Type
net start from the Command prompt to see what's around,
then run services.msc to place selected services on manual. Remember
to make a note of the ones that were on automatic!
 
I find it to be faster as I go. Sluggishness usually indicates a lot of
background "noise" in the form of programs loading that don't need to be.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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Sure. Don't install anything else, don't access the internet at all. It
will stay that way. But, if you use windows like everyone else, you're
going to accumulate crap both in the registry and in the IE cache. IE can
be dealt with, the registry is too bloated and too complicated for 100%
pertinent entries to clean effectively. Software deinstalls are not always
effective. Some files become orphaned. Software installations sometimes
put crap in you aren't aware of. The windows partition becomes fragmented,
the swapfile interferes at times for contiguous file installs. It all
builds as the computer is used. Viruses, trojans, keyloggers, and internet
usage monitoring bugs all add to this mess.

No ideas. This has been normal for windows use well before XP version came
along, and continues that way.

Dave
Beware the rule quoters, the corp mindset, the Borg
Else you will be absorbed
 
I downloaded the document "Windows XP Services" from
http://www.z123.org/techsupport/xpservices.htm and followed the advice
to turn off many of the "services". It speeded up my computer quite a
bit. The document is a rough guide, and requirements do vary from one
computer to another. If one finds a required "service" has been turned
off, it can be easily turned on again.
 
has anyone noticed that windows is so much faster right after you've
just installed it? even after only a month of using it, it seems
sluggish. any ideas on this?
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If you didn't add any apps aftwards, it'd still be the same speed. One
can disable 24/7 backgound apps to speed it up. Or, perhaps you just
need more ram to deal with the applications you've installed.
 
If you didn't add any apps aftwards, it'd still be the same speed.

This is not what I've found.
 
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