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

John Devereux wrote:

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

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"?


The only times I've had to reinstall the operating system was when
someone tried to do an OS upgrade (quite a few times), or had so many
infected files that there wasn't enough left to repair. (once, so far
and I've repaired computers since 1982).

OTOH, I have hand cleaned the registry file in hundreds of computers
to remove the deadwood and returned them to near new performance.

Your new computer was shipped with AOL installed and you delete it.
The registry still has hundreds of entries for AOL. The same goes for
McAfee, Symantec, and hundreds of other programs that leave a trail to
show that their software had been on the computer's hard drive.


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.

--

John Devereux


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Michael A. Terrell
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