Washington Post: Is Your PC Feeling Gravity's Pull? | Linux Today

Washington Post: Is Your PC Feeling Gravity’s Pull?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 4, 1999

“People who purchased a new PC last year have probably
already started to notice this performance degradation…”

“The problem relates to how programs move in and out of
Windows… a program isn’t one monolithic object; it includes
numerous little chunks of programming code, called DLL
files…”

“… when you install a program on a computer, it also loads a
set of instructions inside Windows’ registry file.”

“And when too many of these instructions clutter up the
registry, the system begins to slow…”

“Matters worsen when you uninstall programs from your system.
Many programs fail to clean up their DLLs after them…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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