Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Feb 2006 19:50 UTC, submitted by Nalle
"I've been looking at the 'My desktop OS'-articles, and found that I'll have to be the one writing one for Windows XP. To be honest, Windowx XP is very close to being usable on the desktop. I say very close, because it's not so out of the box. There is a few issues, however and many of them arises when you need to reinstall. You do need to reinstall Windows from time to time - it's just a fact of life!"
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2005-09-21
I've found that on my old Dell Laptop and my desktop that over time if you add and remove a fair amount of software it will degrade the systems performance, even with frequent defrags.
My desktop will on average survive about 6 months between reinstalls. Boot time starts to get excessive around then. It does however manage to stay up and speedy for about a week at a stretch before needing to be restarted and I've not seen a BSOD since I pulled the netgear NIC out.
The laptop with light use by the girlfriend has lasted about a year. But boot time is still climbing, around ~30 after grub.