[News] School Sees XP Degrading (Performance-wise), Some Choose Linux

Why is my computer slowing down?

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| Ie had a lot of students and teachers come to me with this question lately. 
| An entire generation of computers that were cheap but decent a couple of 
| years ago (think Celerons and P4s with a quarter to a half gig of RAM) have 
| begun to crawl under Windows XP in the last few months.   
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| Whether it because the install base is too small for hackers to bother 
| writing inux malwareor because Linux is inherently more secure than XP, 
| most flavors of Linux work quite nicely on single-core hardware without 
| intrusive anti-malware utilities. Even if this only gives the illusion of 
| speed, the users, students, and parents Ie converted have certainly managed 
| to extend the life of computers they would have otherwise tried to replace.     
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Why Does Windows Get Slower Over Time?

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| The natural impulse is to blame Windows itself. The phenomenon is so
| well known and widespread that some in the industry have even coined a
| term for it: "Windows rot." The idea is that, for lack of a specific
| cause, Windows just performs worse the longer you use it. 
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Windows XP OS is really quite a crock 

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| It's amazing that Microsoft built-in a disk defragger into Windows XP,
| but it didn't get around to building an operating system defragger.
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| Are there better ways to clean up and speed up a Windows XP? Sure,
| there are plenty of different techniques and options, but if
| Microsoft had some smarts, they'd build a lean-and-mean Vista
| (since XP is now "legacy") for laptops and desktops without all
| the assorted {*filter*}that they've built in over the years.
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The Importance Cleaning Windows XP

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| On a Windows machine, virtual junk is referred to the countless garbage data 
| stored on hard drives during normal usage. These files include a build up of 
| needless temporary Internet and operating system files, Internet cookies, 
| misplaced or old documents, and the dirtiest system of them all: the Windows 
| Registry.     
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