On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Krow Magnum wrote:
How many Macs have you had die on you ? How many peecees ?
It's not so much the "dying" which can happen anywhere, but the WinRot:
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/7565:
Will Vista Clean Up WinRot?
by Preston Gralla
Aug. 9, 2005
[my comments in [ ] -- TjL]
You're not imagining it --- the older your PC gets, and the more you
use it, the slower it gets.
[again we see "PC" as being used exclusively for Windows]
The phenomenon is called "WinRot." It's caused by lots of things:
programs with sloppy uninstall routines that litter your hard drive
with their leavings; conflicts between several different versions of
the same DLL; Registry gunk; invisible startup programs; and more.
[All of which are not a problem in OS X]
Microsoft claims that it's got the problem on its radar, and that
Vista will stop the rot.
[riiiight... raise your hand if you buy it...]
Vista will include a control panel applet that monitors system
performance, and that will suggest what startup programs may be
causing problems. Microsoft also says it's cleaning up the plumbing
to fix the DLL conflict problem. And it's adding new features such as
automatic disk defragmentation that it says will help as well.
[they are focusing on cleaning up the problem after it happens,
rather than preventing it....]
I'm only partially convinced. Some of the rot-stopping features, such
as "SuperFetch" are essentially juiced-up versions of existing
features, and don't seem as if they'll necessarily do much good. For
example, even if you regularly defrag your system, it still slows
down over time, and so automatic defragging won't solve the problem.
[exactly]
Still, it's heartening to know that Microsoft recognizes WinRot, and
will at least partly solve it. On the other hand, the less WinRot
there is, the less excuse there is to buy a new PC every year or two.
[it's taken this long for MS to recognize WinRot?]
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