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Why is WinXP Slowing Down over Time?
We are starting to see a problem with some Windows XP machines. These XP machines are running unpatched, vanilla installations of XP. They are not connected to the internet and so haven't downloaded any updates, no software is being updated. Our application runs fine when the system is first used but over time the performance of the XP machine is slowing down. By 'over time' I mean the PC itself is running for weeks without a power cycle and the application we've built runs for days at a time. We have only just noticed this slow down because the XP machine has a life-sign protocol with the rest of the system which is not being triggered because the load on the XP machine is too high, failing this life-sign halts the system (if you've read some of my other questions you'll know the system counts cash and so it's important that records are kept of how much cash has been through the system, which is what the Windows XP machine does).
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