Why is Windows slow?

'Cause it's as full of stuff as a Christmas turkey. Case in point. Plugged in a printer to the laptop. Just to make sure everything was hunky-dory I clicked "Print a Test Page". It did. Good deal, the printer works.
Read the freshly printed test sheet. It lists ALL the software files used to print the test page. THIRTY SEPARATE FILES, just to make the printer work. That's thirty times as many files as it ought to be. Printer drivers are simple animals. All they do is take stuff out of disk files and send it to the printer. Every so often ask the printer if it's feeling OK, and if not, put up the Out of Paper indication. Only Microsoft would use thirty separate programs to handle a task that single 8.5*11 page of C code can deal with.