My recommendation to every PC owner, regardless of the OS they're running, is to treat their PC like a car and do maintenance and cleaning every once in a while to keep it performing at its best. Specifically for Windows, there's a conception that the OS tends to slow down and decay over time.
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I stopped cleaning up my PC to see if "Windows rot" is actually real
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