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Imperator Fyron said:
How long has it been since you installed Windoze?
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This issue is important, unfortunately. As you install programs, and delete them after trying them, they may leave garbage in your registry. Windows has to process the large file full of tailings and can slow down. The usual solution is a data file backup, low level format, Windows reinstall, then program reinstall, carefully, only what you want this time. I like to defrag at each program install. Well, at least defrag after Windows install (do Windows update first!), and then after programs are all installed.
Some less time consuming suggestions: Spybot, ver 1.3, has a function above and beyond the spyware removal of ver 1.2 and lower. You will have to poke around to activate the function, but it will remove registry entries for Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, Windows Media Player, and others that contain, for example, your recently opened files. Lots of this stuff is stored even after you delete the program. This is how trialware insures you don't delete then reinstall the program. Remember Microsoft is very customer-oriented -- its just that the customer is the software vendor, not you.
Another program I used to clean the registry, is called RegSeeker. It may be hard to find, I think it was the old Version of something that was sold to a commercial registry cleaner company. You can also try one of the several registry cleaners, I'm always consistantly impressed with the throughness and innovation of Norton programs. 'Tho they're never ashamed to have their programs eat resources like candy.
I will be able to provide you with less and less help, I'm sad to say (I don't even know what Version of RegSeeker and who made it, for example). I dumped Windows for Linux a couple of months ago, in part for this particular reason -- the ever clogging registry.