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Originally Posted by sil
You get the same performance increase by reformting and re installing Win7 or Win XP. The problem is people dont understand how to keep their computers clean so they run at their best ALL the time.
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That's not the whole story for me - two of the machines that I updated at home were "clean" Windows 7 re-installs before I updated them to Windows 10 (precisely because I wanted to avoid any legacy "junk" after the update) - and they definitely boot faster than they did with a fresh, "clean" Windows 7 installation.
After 6 months or so of experience with Windows 10 - all of our machines are still running just as fresh as when Windows 10 was first installed on them. My prior experience was that you would normally see a gradual slow-down with a typical consumer Windows machine as various system applications and processes build up a general layer of "gunk" on the hard drive and OS. You would live with this until the machine became too glacial to stand any more, at which time you would do a re-format / re-install - and let's face it, a re-format / re-install isn't something you ever really wanted to do! That hasn't been needed on any of our Windows 10 machines so far.
It seems to me that Windows 10 does seem to manage the "house-keeping" side better than Windows XP / 7 did, on the same machines, with the same application software installed.