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Does Windows 7 on a Solid State Drive suffer noticable "Windows Rot"?
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Mar 15, 2026573 viewsConfidence Score0%
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"Windows Rot", defined as the build up of old programs distributing shared files everywhere, having several unnecessary programs running at start up and cluttering the registry can significantly slow down a computer. However, a solid state drive dramatically increases the read/write speed of both s…
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The SSD is not any more susceptible to "windows rot" than a spinny drive. The speed of the SSD is a lot more, so any speed decrease may be less or more depending on whether it's CPU being eaten, disk space running out, memory being hogged, etc. The …
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