Windows Vista- maintaining performance over time?

I like WindowsXP, but don't appreciate the way it's gotten
sluggish over the years. It's still way better than win98 where you
HAD to do a fresh install every 6-12 months, not to mention it's
instability in everyday performance. To my WinXP I've done
defragmentation, used many programs to try to improve the registry,
used other programs to get the spyware out, tested the hard drive out
itself (I've had a couple of hard drives and the same sluggishness
appears over time), and all of that. I've also upgraded my hardware to
what is now 2.5Ghz and 1GB of ram. Not to mention a Geforce 256mb
graphics card. None of this helped my sluggish system (it's not that
sluggish that you can't use it, but sluggish in that you remember how
very snappy it used to be when you first installed it and just wish it
was a little snappier).
I go to my dad's computer with 850mhz processor and 128mb's of
memory, with a freshly installed WinXP and it's quick and snappy, much
more than mines. I don't know if there's anything else I can do to my
WinXP except do a fresh intall and reinstall all of my programs again
(all 150 of them). So I'm wondering, will Windows Vista fix the
problem of os's getting sluggish over time? I know it'll have a
registry feature to keep it fresh, but I've used many registry
programs and know this doesn't fix the sluggishness that appears after
time.
.

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