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On 15/09/10 10:12, Gibbs wrote: > > I had a problem yesterday. A friend (who hates computers) asked if he > should upgrade to Windows 7 because his laptop was running slow. The quick answer is simply reformat and reinstall (after suitable backups and extracting useful settings with the relevant wizard). If it is running an older version of Windows I doubt Windows 7 will run faster. However Windows is a master at slowing down with time, registry fragmentation, disk fragmentation, accumulation of malware and daft applications. The most amusing of these was the IDE driver which downgraded disk IO over time if you had a CD drive on the same bus as the hard drive and played a CD with scratches, all you had to do was delete the bus from the hardware manager and reboot every so often - who would ever think of doing that? Of course if he wants as OS that doesn't need reinstalling as often..... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq