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Positive effects of a OS re-install

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I have a slow computer, and I can uninstall unused applications, empty the cookies, scrub the registry, do a disk cleanup, and do a defrag, but it is still just kind of slow. If I do a Windows re-install, same OS, and reinstall all of the exact same programs, the computer is pretty fast again. What…

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Serverfault question ref: System degredation - does Windows slow down over time? Mark Russinovich's take on The Case of the Slooooow System describes how to analyze a slow system. For personal experience, before a reinstall you could do these things…

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