MS Vista to combat the big slowdown…
Yah – I’ll believe that when I see it. If they do pull it off, though, it’ll be really nice not to have to reinstall every 9-12 months.
Yah – I’ll believe that when I see it. If they do pull it off, though, it’ll be really nice not to have to reinstall every 9-12 months.
Heh. I wonder how long before it’s scrapped in favor of an “automatic restore” so it doesn’t push back the lauch date. If anyone can MS could get away with it as they’ve already made users accustomed to losing their data. :)
Yah – that’s the “Automatic Restore” service that always gets disabled so that [ad|spy|mal]ware can be removed effectively…
Seriously – have I ever had the need for an “Automatic Restore” in linux? Well okay – maybe once, but that was due to a
find . -exec rm {} \;debachle :-)
Are you guys speaking english? friggin weird.
You need to watch “your companies computer guy”.
I like the quote, “If your PC is like most, it was at its optimal performance the day you turned it on and has slowed down ever since.”
For me, my PC (at least the ones I didn’t build myself, but bought OEM) were fastest after I wiped the OS and all the OEM installed crap software and freshly installed the OS again…
The auto-defrag and resource monitoring makes complete sense though, and it’s about time this happened.
Well, the argument could be made that MS should really implement a *modern* filesystem. For example, reiserfs[3|4] in linux will naturally defrag themselves as a normal part of disk I/O. In this case, there is no need for an “auto-defrag” service to run in the background.
Also, it’s my belief that 95% of the Windows slowdown is caused by registry bloat. Repeated app installs/uninstalls leave crap throughout the registry. As the size of the registry hives increase, key/value lookups take longer and longer.
…to get an idea of how much the registry is used, grab RegMon from Sysinternals. At least on my system, I see an average of 300-500 registry hits per second. That’s nuts.
Well, they were going to include WinFS (*they’re* version of a modern FS..) in Vista, but they dropped it so they could ship on time..
Registry lookups don’t take that long by themselves, but as you point out, wow that’s a lot of them going on…
For what it’s worth, I ran RegMon on a clean XP install, and I got about 100-150 hits/second. Those were all requested by the “explorer” process.