Why do computers get slower over time? [closed]
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Published on 2010-01-05T11:09:47Z
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Why does hardware get slower with time?
You probably know this: A newly bought computer is snappy and responsive and just really fast. Then you use it for a couple of months and slowly but steadily the computer gets slower. Opening programs now takes a long time, accessing files takes longer, everything just takes longer than it used to.
If you wipe your hard drive and reinstall, everything is back to its original snappyness, but will deteriorate again.
This always happend with any operating system I used. Worst of all Windows XP, but also with Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux, OSX 10.5/10.6, Windows Vista... (haven't used Win 7 long enough to confirm this)
Do you know the reason for this? Or even, a cure?
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