![]() Instead, the goal was to eliminate variables. Therefore, I designed a benchmark: A freshly installed, activated copy of Windows 10, fully updated and with only Firefox installed to the system.Īs it is obvious from these parameters, the goal was not to simulate any kind of real world scenario, or a computer that an average user might have. That is why I thought, surely a large amount of junk data is going to slow your computer down. While this is optimized and possibly multi-threaded on Windows 10 and 11, it is still going to use CPU time and it shouldn‘t be trivialized into being simply a matter of loading a few megabytes of data from disk to RAM. Windows is going to iterate through all that data at some point during the system startup with some data being read multiple times. The Windows registry is used to store system and third party application data and settings. When Windows starts up, it doesn‘t just load some data from the disk to RAM. A common misconception is that the registry is only a few megabytes and therefore, simply loading up those few megabytes from the disk into RAM is going to take only a very short time. When your computer starts up, Windows is going to load up the entire registry, and iterate through all the registry data. The same applies to the Windows registry. And while doing that, it is going to iterate through every single directory and every file, even if it doesn‘t technically use such temporary files. While on the surface the original argument makes sense – that unused temporary file and registry junk is, by definition, unused and therefore no amount of such junk would slow the system down.Įven if some data is unused, and for example if Windows doesn‘t use the specific temporary files per se, Windows is still going to be maintaining and constantly updating the file system, for example. ![]() I was thinking possibly million or so temporary files and perhaps even more registry data. My original hypothesis, which I also shared in Reddit, was that there needs to be a lot of junk data for it to have a clearly measurable or noticeable effect.
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