How old is your install?

I just realised that this current install of Windows I'm on is now over a year old.

I'm still running perfect. I mean, I have crashes but only minor program crashes which are the program's fault (sup GTK). I reboot only when I feel like it or am doing something that requires a reboot such as changing hardware / updates etc. This install still runs as nice as when I installed it.

I'd attribute it to that I've looked after my PC (best antivirus is common sense amirite?lolollol), and not fucked around with it hardly.

What about yours?

I guess you should include how often it's used. No cheating by having a 6 year old XP install that you've only booted twice. I use mine pretty much quite alot daily.

Spoiler for:

Something incredible is that my parent's PC's XP Pro install is now 4 years old yet still works. Well, technically; it runs at a snail's pace and is riddled with spyware.

This one is for around nearly a month now. Edited some parts of the registry and sped up shutdown process by times 200, turned off prefetch for a fast start (funnily enough ever since Style XP the PC got worse). It's running awesome.

But what I hate is how the first time FL runs Hanging On is like 40 CPU, now it reaches 100 CPU with the first hit. =/

Mine is like...2 years old I think....yea, 2 and it's working pretty good =D

~Winged

2 years, but I defrag every three months. 

mines close to 7 months. my bro's laptop is still the same from when he got it in 2001 
he's never had antivirus installed, used IE 6, and had tons of porn. And to this day, still runs great. (reason be we dont have the windows install disk for it )

Yeah mine is close to a year now but it's in tip top shape (Iron wall against viruses & spyware). Although I am thinking of getting a Mac or Windows Vista. Maybe a high powered computer with XP.

Desktop my mom and I use:
Upwards of 3 years.
Zero problems. Never had a spyware problem, never had any viruses.
Oh, the monitor burned out from a power outage a few months ago. Guess I should include that.


Laptop I use:
Upwards of 4 years.
Riddled with hardware problems because I'm very rough with it.
Nearly every hardware piece in the laptop is NOT the piece it originally came with, and is a replacement part.
No viruses or spyware, though. Never a virus. Maybe some spyware at some point, but that's very rare.

ermm kinda 6 months

2 months, I remote my computer all the 2 months !

6 months old, and it's falling apart. But then again, managing 130.000 files demands it's toll.  Also, I'm running an overclocked system and since it's summer it can get fairly hot, so I had a few crashed the past few weeks.

My computer:
I've had this computer for about 2 years but a year ago, it was nearly murdered by spyware so I did a format back to factory condition. It's been  nearly a year since then. As far as software, I recently realized I'm lacking a good anti-virus and my spyware scanner's trial has finally run out.  I have no more than about 27-28 processes(mainly system files) running at any given time and it runs even the current games like TES4:Oblivion(the grass option makes it lag to hell -_-) with ease. I <3 my computer.

Parent's computer:
If a computer could speak, then it would sound like a sick, dying beast on it's last leg. As far as specs go, it's horribly slow but that's another topic all together. They've formated back to factory conditions about 3 times since they bought it about 5 years ago. It's been about 2 years since the last format. They hate their computer but love mine. Their computer runs about 20-22 processes at any given time but lags when running Firefox of all things.

Side Note
I really need to read stickys first...this is becoming a bad habit.

This one is for around nearly a month now. Edited some parts of the registry and sped up shutdown process by times 200, turned off prefetch for a fast start (funnily enough ever since Style XP the PC got worse). It's running awesome.

But what I hate is how the first time FL runs Hanging On is like 40 CPU, now it reaches 100 CPU with the first hit. =/

how do you turn off prefetch?

A few days old now, turns out I need a new fan. Not a new install of XP. Lost a few things I valued. =/

Spoiler for ahref:

Well if you just wanna do it temporarily go to "C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch" and delete the files in there. Although they come back just by opening a program which destroys the point of deleting them really. I'm guessing you'll have like 200 files in there (I get around 70 within a few hours of it being turned on, by opening MSN, Firefox, FL, Notepad, Winamp etc. etc.).

Anyway, go to Run (Windows Key + R), type in "regedit" then navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

Under this key you should see a value named: EnablePrefetcher

It has 4 possible values;
0 - Disabled : The prefetch system is turned off.
1 - Application : The prefetch only caches applications.
2 - Boot : The prefetch only caches boot system files.
3 - All : The prefetch caches boot, and application files.

Pick option 2. 0 is just stupid and 3 is the default (if I remember). Restart, the second time you restart it'll be faster.

So to be honest I didn't turn it off. Whoops.

thanks

My windows install, until recently was probably around 3-4 years old. It ran pretty decent except for a few minor networking issues. I never really had any bad viri/worm/spyware so it continued to run pretty well. Although when i fresh reinstalled windows I did notice the boot up sequence ran much much faster. ANd soon its going to be running even faster once I get my new hardware.

Spoiler for:

Something incredible is that my parent's PC's XP Pro install is now 4 years old yet still works. Well, technically; it runs at a snail's pace and is riddled with spyware.

  My one pc is like that, but my other pc runs xp pro since it came out, and it runs just fine.

This laptop is like a year old.

Mine is around two-three years old...lol! Never had any problems..

A week. Just re-installed XP because I was too lazy to clean it.

about a year with xp home... takes a few years to start up though... might try that prefetch thingy.. runs smoothly otherwise, except that the video card slot got fried by melted heatsink when my fan came loose last year.... pc kept overheating every half an hour and shutting down...

7 days lol

My current install is about 4 months old, at most, and I've had this laptop for a year. I haven't gone one day without using it since I got it, and stay on for hours at a time.

I just realised that this current install of Windows I'm on is now over a year old.

I'm still running perfect. I mean, I have crashes but only minor program crashes which are the program's fault (sup GTK). I reboot only when I feel like it or am doing something that requires a reboot such as changing hardware / updates etc. This install still runs as nice as when I installed it.

I'd attribute it to that I've looked after my PC (best antivirus is common sense amirite?lolollol), and not fucked around with it hardly.

What about yours?

I guess you should include how often it's used. No cheating by having a 6 year old XP install that you've only booted twice. I use mine pretty much quite alot daily

I am just like you. Except I apparently don't actually have CD drives anymore, though I've done everything I can to prove they're in the same place they've always been...connected to the tower.

2 days now... got new pc 

I just realised that this current install of Windows I'm on is now over a year old.

I'm still running perfect. I mean, I have crashes but only minor program crashes which are the program's fault (sup GTK). I reboot only when I feel like it or am doing something that requires a reboot such as changing hardware / updates etc. This install still runs as nice as when I installed it.

I'd attribute it to that I've looked after my PC (best antivirus is common sense amirite?lolollol), and not fucked around with it hardly.

What about yours?

I guess you should include how often it's used. No cheating by having a 6 year old XP install that you've only booted twice. I use mine pretty much quite alot daily

I am just like you. Except I apparently don't actually have CD drives anymore, though I've done everything I can to prove they're in the same place they've always been...connected to the tower.

LOL I had that problem a couple months ago. It was pretty bizarre, because I'd go to Device Properties and it would show them there, and they still had power to them because they would open and close, but if you put a disc in and tried to run it, it would act like the disc wasn't in. And neither drive showed up in My Computer.

After trying for about 2 hours, Windows pretty much collapsed and I had to reinstall. Everything's been fine since. That's pretty much the only major problem I've had on this computer.

this one's like 2 months and it's good(you know, my family got this for my birthday because they said that the 6 year old one was getting stupid anyways)
The older one was a bitch of steel.
It still is.