Joseph Goncalves wrote:
> Does Vista suffer from the time from installation - speed 
> problem. That is does Vista run slower the longer you have it 
> installed on your machine?

I believe this problem relates to the number of COM components which are
added to the registry.

A lot of crapware is Active-X (ie COM) based and therefore contributes to
this problem, although the problem can develop through installation of
legitimite software - MS Office, and a lot of Adobe products register a lot
of COM components.

One big design issue with COM is that they made the components themselves
responsible for registering and unregistering themselves.

In practice, even "legitimate" components, once registered, tend to not ever
be unregistered, making registry bloat an inevitable process given enough
time.

Adelle.

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