How often do you reinstall?

[Thunderbolt 2864]

XP, about every 5 or 6 months. my XP installs seem to get buggy around that time. 98 i have never had to reinstall on any of my PCs. (except once when i was messing around in dos mode with some german file manager (dont ask) and i accidently deleted the /windows/ folder ^_^;; oops)

also i have not got a virus or infection of any kind for years.

You serious? When I had 98 I had to keep reinstalling it.

[prx984]

im dumb, and my dad has sorta started a little joke. whenever he gets home from work now, he asks me what OS i have on any of my computers. i reload them almost 2 or 3 times a day now cuz its summer lol. oh well, im just weird i suppose, but hey, its good practice for the future

although i reload a lot, iv never had a virus or any crap like that, so im happy

[spazmire11]

every half year, with defrags monthly, sometimes more if i break something

however it can be upto 50 times in one day if im developing microwinx related things

[Maleko]

More often its once a year, sometimes every 6 months.

[LLXX]

The XP needs to be reinstalled yearly, but my 98se has been installed since... 11th June 2001 08:12:50

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Edited July 2, 2006 by LLXX

[mark]

More than once a month. Between two partitions. Doing that until I have an install that I am completely happy with. I joined MSFN two years ago and not had any malware on my pc since.

DL

[spacesurfer]

Humm, during the windows 98 era, I reinstalled 98 more often than XP. 98 tended to become unstable and crashed a lot.

XP, on the other hand is stable for me. Only reason I do a reinstall is if it gets infected with spyware or when I install too much crap and I need to refresh.

[Mordac85]

We have a highly customized unattended install w/several aspects integrated into our AD schema, so after troubleshooting various issues I need to rebuild a couple times a year. I could do my own unattended install, but I like to work from the same type of build the user's are working on and my system lacks the butt to run a virtual device.

[kurt476]

I end up reinstall becuase of adware, virus, spyware. not all of the softare out there is 100% finding spyware. I sure wish that was true.. or some unkown reason my pc slows down. that why I end up reinstalling windows xp.

[ripken204]

I end up reinstall becuase of adware, virus, spyware. not all of the softare out there is 100% finding spyware. I sure wish that was true.. or some unkown reason my pc slows down. that why I end up reinstalling windows xp.

you've got to stop looking at that porn man

lol,jk. have u tried nliting internet explorer out of there? i know that once i did that, all of my problems went away.

[okmju]

it very trouble to install OS, now many good software can sovle system problem, it mustn't to do it.

[mb2]

uh, wheres the 'never, its fine' option.

[gamehead200]

Every six to eight months, more or less... It's time for a format right about now...

[gunsmokingman]

I reinstall approx once a year for XP, if I feel like it.

I have never had a problem with adware, spyware, virus using Internet Explorer.

[ricktendo]

1 to 3 times a month

This dosnt include every other day with VM Ware Workstation

Edited July 7, 2006 by ricktendo64