re: Speed up general operation of XP Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 8:03 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Alan Masterman (462 messages posted) It's not a question of "pre-installed" errors - but it's important to remember that, until DotNet takes over completely, absolutely everything that happens in Windows is governed by the registry (which is a hangover from the same mindset that gave us DOS.INI). Installing any version of Windows is a complex operation, and it is mainly controlled by temporary registry entries, many of which are not properly cleaned up after the installation is complete. The same applies with fragmentation. After a supposedly clean instal, why will so many defrag programs report that your disc is badly fragmented? Of course, it's because of all the temp files which were created and deleted during various stages of the installation, leaving awkward gaps between the final-instal files. I don't want to be controversial here - but a clean instal is not 100% clean until you have carried out full optimisation and registry cleaning. Written in response to: re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 7:52 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Speed up general operation of XP (PaulB: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:09 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:46 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:37 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (bob wells: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 11:54 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 12:46 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 8:27 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:13 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 6:14 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 7:57 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (ksiemb: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 11:53 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:27 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 7:52 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 8:12 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 8:42 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (ksiemb: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 10:18 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:15 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:53 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 1:11 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:25 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 9:13 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:16 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:03 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:13 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:29 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:30 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 1:03 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (C K: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 1:42 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 2:21 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (PaulB: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 7:37 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 9:41 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:36 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 10:58 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:35 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum