The Inevitable Windows Slow Down
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Mar 15, 2026985 viewsConfidence Score0%
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So my mum brought her laptop over last night and asked if I can do anything about the fact it runs noticably slower than it did when she got it. It's a low end Toshiba running Vista Home Premium. When she got it I went through and uninstalled most of the OEM-ed crap that came on it and it ran fine.…
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Fix for: The Inevitable Windows Slow Down
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In my experience, this is caused by the users having installed lots of software, as mentioned by Avery Payne and John T. OTOH disk fragmentation accounts for only a small part of the slow down. I have come up with this approach: Whenever someone in …
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