The Windows Registry - MIcrosofts Count Down to Another Sale
Posted on October 29, 2008
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Its interesting isn’t it how companies can build in obsolesce into their products? It is also remarkable how companies can make a lot more profit from selling you product to maintain what you ahve already bought than they do from selling you the inital product. A strong example of products that make their manufactures more money after the sale than the initial transaction is cheap ink jet printers, the printers cost very little but the ink cartridges are where the likes of HP make their margin. You will probably still buy it though as you will think, well I still have some link in the other cartridges and I don’t want to change the printer.
Returning to the subject of built in obsolescence, this is less of a problem than it used to be when it comes to things such as white goods and other solid products. The reason for this is that manufactures are obliged to supply parts for these products seven years after they stop making them so repair is often now a real option. The area where built in obsolesce really does seem to still be a problem is that of software and in particular Microsoft Windows. The problem that Microsoft and probably a lot of hardware manufacturers have is that most people never use their computer to its full potential so although you can keep making better and better computers most people will never feel the need to upgrade. The activities that most people carry out on their computer of surfing the Internet and word processing, neither of these but much strain on a computer? And if you chose not to upgrade what happens? Well they don’t sell any more computers and so Microsoft doesn’t sell any more copies of Windows. So they Microsoft and the computer manufacturers get round the problem by building in obsolescence.
The first and probably most effective way in which they do this is that they encourage people making software to make it incompatible with older version of windows and older computers. At lot of the time the software being released has been built to put a strain on older systems even though it is often totally unnecessary for it to do so. The second and most shocking way in which the likes of Microsoft force you to spend more money and change your computer is that programs like Microsoft Windows slowly decay over time until they become unworkable, with the computer running slowly and regularly crashing. Most of the time when a computer starts to run slowly and crash people wrongly assume its because the computer has had its day and needs replacing with a new one. You do not need to buy a new computer you need to repair the windows registry. What’s the Windows Registry you ask? Well it’s a directory of all the programs and files that are stored by your computer. As you add and remove programs this registry becomes corrupted and your computer starts to run poorly, this problem can be easily fixed with a windows registry error repair tool so don’t buy a new computer make the one you have already run like new again.
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