Why you don't need to regularly reinstall windows

[Deleted User]

http://lifehacker.com/5435523/you-dont-need-to-regularly-reinstall-windows-heres-why?skyline=true&s=x

Good read.

motorguy

???

Is there some sort of hidden joke here i'm missing?

Takes you to a page about 5 best wallpaper download sites?

BillScarab

One of the links at the top of that page is the article in question.

This links to the article

http://lifehacker.com/5435523/you-dont-need-to-regularly-reinstall-windows-heres-why?skyline=true&s=i

There's nothing particularly new in it but it may be useful for some people.

[Deleted User]

BillScarab wrote: »

One of the links at the top of that page is the article in question.

D'oh! OP updated.

fwor

It's surprising that the article places so little of the blame on the Windows registry.

IIRC the registry is widely recognised as a design flaw in Windows. Every application needs to access it, but every entry in it is (potentially) variable length, so the only way to find an entry is to crawl through it. If applications fail to remove entries that are no longer needed - which many do - then it gets steadily bigger and slower to access.

The article doesn't have much good to say about "registry cleaners", and my own experience of them - admittedly years ago now - was bad, having had a PC rendered unbootable by one in the past.

If you don't trust registry cleaners, the only way to solve the problem is to re-install Windows.