All Dell / E1505: System Factory restore

I have a Aug 2006, Dell E1505, 1.83 ghz, 1 gb ram, ati 256 1400 etc etc + 80gb HDD (note) win XP & media center

for last three year never formatted my system, it was going good... recently some virus attack happend and it made my notebook verrrrrry slow, so i did the famous Ctrl + F11 !!

follow mark mck's bloatware removal, did a hdd defrag for non-c drive.

But my question is, even after everything the system is not running as fast it did in 2006

boot time is ~1min, shut down is 35 odd seconds...


So, my 2 cents say that after long usage, even if you do a factory restore DO NOT EXPECT a out of the factory hardware/speed, all u get is out of factory windows settings and bloatware ( mad:


p.s. only thing good happened was i again have the dell wallpaper and sound got better dunno how

 

Don't do a factory restore... use the install media you got and reload Windows from scratch?

 

Thanks wolf, but do you really think after 3+ years optical drive will still work ?

anycase, i should still get the initial factory performance. I did tests on ram/hdd and processor to find everything in good shape.

have no idea, how can a system's performance go down with the same software/OS on it

 

Yes, I do, actually.

Does yours not work? You could always use an external optical drive, or create a bootable flash drive (though I'm not quite sure how to do the latter).

 

come on, everyone... i am not asking how to do it or not.

my question is, why does a format after 3 yrs cannot get as good as it used to be ??