Why do all Microsoft operating systems degrade over time?

Question

Microsoft

Today I finally decided to ask a question to which I have not known the answer for fifteen years ...
Why do all Microsoft operating systems lose performance over time? Different computers, different versions, different modes of operation, but the result is the same - a year, and you have to set everything up again, otherwise it's getting slower and slower every day. What is it that begins to “get tired”?
(Sorry, I initially missed and put it not in the Q&A, but in the posts, corrected)

Answer 1

And again I will write that the statement written in the title radically contradicts the objectively observed reality. The performance loss is directly related to the quantity/quality of the currently running software. It is possible to correct for the degradation of the disk subsystem (fragmentation as an example).
“Littering the registry” is utter nonsense at this stage in the development of technology, and moreover, any attempts to automatically clean it up are almost guaranteed to lead to the very need to reinstall the OS.

Answer 2

To stimulate sales of new, more powerful equipment. In response, hardware manufacturers are pushing Windows OEM.

Answer 3

the computer is clogged with various information all over :(
Even installing and uninstalling software, something is left on the disk, in the registry there is a
register, files, drivers, updates, ... this becomes a lot and it becomes more difficult to process it.
It seems like microsoft is doing better now , it used to have to be reinstalled/optimized every six months on Win98. XP already withstood up to 1 year.Windows 7 is better in this regard, 1-3 years, depending on the turnover of the software and its quality.

Answer 4

Once every 2 months I climb into msconfig of my XP and cut down everything that I don't need.
For example, why do I need a flash player updater in memory all the time? Where did GuardMailRu come from again?
Windows has never been reinstalled. Works like new.

Answer 5

There is no such thing in W8, I was surprised myself.

Answer 6

On my desktop machine, win7 stood from the beta version to win8 without any problems.
In simple loading 0-1%, everything is fine.
Any clogged registries now do not matter, just like the fragmentation of the FS on the SSD. An incomprehensible problem of the topicstarter.

Answer 7

In general, the performance of the system should not fall, and on corporate computers under the supervision of straight-handed admins and the infringed freedom of users (in terms of installing software, configuring the system), the systems work for several years without causing any complaints, for example, we still have "pigs" installed in 2006 :) And the whole pantheon of working software works as well as the resources of the computer itself allow, it’s another matter that several generations of software have changed during this time, and as you probably know the tendency to reduce / speed up software, we especially is not observed, the software is becoming “heavier” and “hunger”.
As an example, let's return to the same office station, since 2006, some programs have passed the following path on it:
1) MS Office 2003 => MS Office 2007=> MS Office 2010
2) 1C 7.7 => 1C 8.0 => 1C 8.2
(the databases with which we are working, by the way, have not decreased either :) which, as it were, adds “like system braking”)
3) Adobe Reader 6.x => Adobe Reader 9.x => Adobe Reader X => Adobe Reader XI
4) Abby Lingvo 10 => Abby Lingvo x3 => Abby Lingvo x5
5) Abby FineReader 6.0 => Abby FineReader 9.0
If we take into account how fat browsers are and how much they now “guzzle” memory, then even with an increase in total memory from 1 GB DDRII in 2006 to 4 GB DDRII at the moment, the station will experience a much greater load than the one it had back in 2006
And so it seems that it slows down, but in fact, it works, and it works very well ; under such a load.
There is also an opinion that as security increases, the release of HotFix and CriticalFix, as well as from SP1 to SP3, the closing of vulnerabilities, and a general increase in the level of security, comes at the expense of a certain loss in system performance as a whole, caused by additional checks, integrity control , complicated by cryptography, etc.
So most likely - it's not the performance that is declining, but the load is growing :) Here ...

Answer 8

I observed this repeatedly, but it was possible to diagnose and fix it only in one case - I had to turn off super prefetch on Win7

Answer 9

I don't fall.
I installed a set of applications and lives the same way all my life, the average life of one Windows is 3-4 years.

Answer 10

It’s still an IT resource, so I won’t share my experience, but I’ll simply advise you to use diagnostic tools, starting from the built-in resource monitor, sandra, norton, or whatever came out of the fresh, otherwise I haven’t been following this for many years, better google.

Answer 11

There's still a problem, IMHO, with browsers. They accumulate a varied history, temp files (cached pictures, cookies, etc.) - all this becomes difficult to process on the hdd. From here you can observe the brakes when surfing, which would seem to be low-cost.

Answer 12

Performance doesn't drop. You just need to look at the registry. This is written in every manual. Don't mess around.