Re: OT: Desktop icons vanishing. How to get rid of them?

"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

John Devereux wrote:

Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

David Brown wrote:

On my old NT 4 pc, the "programs" folder on the start menu used to
disappear regularly to be replaced by a single entry "eject pc".

It sounds like your machine is getting old and filled up - the only
permanent solution is a re-install.

And how exactly would a re-install help ?

This is one of lifes great mysteries... windows machines always seem
to get slower and slower, for no single reason that is clear to
me. You can defrag, virus scan, regclean and uninstall all you like,
they will still be slow. After a couple of years you need a re-install
to reset them!


Bull. It slows down because of all the OS patches, and dead entries
in the registry that cleanup programs won't touch. Reinstalling the OS
creates a new registry file without all the trash.

That explanation does not seem inconsistent with what I wrote, so why
the "bull"?

XP ran fine on 128 MB when it was introduced. The minimum these
days is a GB, unless you don't mind the temporary freezes. The
other problem is that the "Virtual memory" is limited to 1 GB.
Older versions let me decide what size swap file I wanted, and was
quite a bit bigger than the system RAM.

This XP computer has 2 GB of RAM, yet runs out of "Virtual memory".

I don't disagree.

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John Devereux
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