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.

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

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

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

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, 200620 yr by LLXX

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

1 to 3 times a month

This dosnt include every other day with VM Ware Workstation

Edited July 7, 200620 yr by ricktendo64