Prepare for winrot!

Well luggable is showing signs of winrot. I’ll have to look if there is a formal definition of it, but any windoze user is aware of the phenomina. The system just gets slower. Slower to boot, slower to run, and slower to shut down. The only real solution is a complete wipe of the hard drive, reinstall the pig from scratch or distribution media, reinstall all your software, then reload all your data, and then scramble for what you have missed. Arghhh! I guess I’ll just have to start to prep for the inevitable. Sometimes I think just buying a new machine is easier!

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2 Responses to Prepare for winrot!

  1. Unknown's avatar TECH: What To Do When Your Computer Bogs Down — cry? « Reinke Faces Life says:
    Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 15:15

    […] What you are describing is a phenom which I believe is generally called winrot. (I’ve blogged about it. https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/02/24/prepare-for-winrot/ on several occasions.) […]

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  2. reinkefj's avatar reinkefj says:
    Friday, February 24, 2006 at 09:56

    Winrot Per Mark Gibbs (of Geerhead and Backspin fame).
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    The creeping pernicious degradation of the integrity of Windows(tm) systems to the point where they run slowly; behave erratically, stop working altogether or all of the above.
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