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

“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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