Large hard drive hides cruft
One of the first things I was going to do when I bought my new computer was to wipe the default installation of Windows XP as soon as possible. This was about a year ago, and whilst I have installed Debian as a dual boot, I have yet to reinstall XP. Could it be that XP is unique in Windows operating systems and doesn’t slow down as the cruft builds up, or is the 80Gb hard drive hiding all the cruft and at some time in the future, the system will grind to a sudden and complete stop?