![]() ![]() Steve – Windows has built-in disk cleanup tools you can call to deal up with files that are no longer needed at both the user level and system levels, which includes update files, optimization files, etc. The response should have been “This file/folder is corrupted and completely unreadable and unrecoverable. Totally the opposite of how Windows should have acted. Couldn’t get rid of them with any DOS mode tools. Before Unlocker (which hasn’t had an update in forever but still works on all Windows from 95 through 10) the only way to get rid of those was wiping the drive. Unlocker was a very welcome tool that could pry Windows hands off those and nuke them. Windows 9x was also good about protecting corrupted files and folders from being deleted. I tried every Registry fixer and cleaner and method of forcibly deleting the bad key but Windows protected it like a mother wolf guarding a dead pup. Must have given me some idea of where it was stopping so I could find it in GUI Regedit. DOS mode Regedit registry export and re-import would choke on the corrupted character. ONE corrupted character in one Registry key. (Sit me in front of a DOS box with XTREE now and I’m certain I’d have no idea how to run it.) The experience made me really miss XTREE. I found the last, unfinished, release of Total Commander for Windows and was able to use it to copy off everything I wanted to save so I could wipe the drive and do a fresh install. IIRC it would also crash if I clicked three icons on the Desktop.įortunately I was able to use a web browser without Windows crashing. Made it impossible to move or copy or do much of anything in Explorer. What it would so is in Windows Explorer I could make exactly three clicks on things with the left mouse button and it’d hard crash with the breaking glass sound. What made it really bad was I used a very authentic sounding breaking glass noise. No idea what glitched at that precise moment. It died coincidentally with my switching of the critical stop sound. There was a specific procedure involving putting both drives into another PC or booting from a live OS CD-R. I had a Windows 95a install that I kept through multiple hardware upgrades and (IIRC) five complete system changes. Posted in Software Development Tagged application, comparison, latency, modern, retro, software, speed, Windows 11, windows 2000 Post navigation Desktop applications built with a browser compatibility layer, software companies who are reducing their own costs by perhaps not abiding by best programming practices or simply taking advantage of modern computing power to reduce their costs, and of course the fact that modern software often needs more hardware resources to run safely and securely than equivalents from the past. While there are plenty of plausible reasons for these slowdowns in apparent speed, it’s likely a combination of many things death by a thousand cuts. Notepad, for example, is now based on UWP. For applications developed natively, the response times would be expected to be quite good, but fewer applications are developed natively now including things that might seem like they otherwise would be. Things like this are possible thanks to the amount of computing power of modern machines, but not without a slight cost of higher latency. Plenty of application developers are attempting to minimize the amount of development time for their programs while maximizing the number of platforms they run on, which often involves using a compatibility layer, which abstracts the software away from the hardware and increases the overhead needed to run programs. His videos set off a huge debate about why it seems that modern personal computers often appear slower than machines of the past.Īfter going through plenty of plausible scenarios for what is causing the slowdown, seems to settle on a nuanced point regarding abstraction. Compared to his modern laptop, which seems to struggle with even these basic tasks despite its impressive modern hardware, the antique machine seems like a speed demon. Has an older computer sitting on a desk, and recorded a quick video with it showing how fast this computer can do seemingly simple things, like open default Windows applications including the command prompt and Notepad. ![]()
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