On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:52:20 -1000, dsi1 wrote:

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> When I had to get a new machine after my old one was
>> eaten alive by adware or whatever, I dreaded the Vista
>> that would be on the new pc.
>
> The dirty little secret of WinXP is that with normal use, the system
> will gradually slow down until it's a pain to use. This has to do with
> programs loading themselves into your start menu, your registry being
> messed up and adware and God knows what else. I'm very careful about
> keeping startup programs to a minimum, the registry clean, and removing
> adware and malware but I've had to do several fresh installs of XP on my
> machines. This seems to be required by the OS every 18 to 24 months. It
> will be interesting to see if Vista has this nasty problem.
>

christ, i hope not.

i've never had a machine so gunked up as to require a re-install of the
o.s.

your pal,
blake