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This is due to several factors

1. The size of the registry grows over time, slowing down many windows apps including the kernel and Windows APIs used by all windows apps

2. The file system becomes fragmented over time

3. The wasted space on the disk increases as files are created and then not used again, so the disk head has to skip around more on older machines

Reformatting the hard disk and reinstalling the OS has the desired effect, but in doing so all data will be lost and so important files etc have to be backed up first

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