How often do you format?

Only if something has gone horribly wrong. Had this installation running for over a year and no issues or performance loss. I may reinstall for SP1, but I think laziness is going to win out on this one! :p

Reinstalling for new hardware is a bit silly, unless it is fundamental like the motherboard.
 
Same as you.

Or when I get a major major slow down.

It's too much phaff for little performance and too much time.
 
New PC or Hard Drive. If you Defrag once a week Regularly and CCleaner once a day, it stays really quick. College mates were suprised how quick my Old laptop was even though it was over a year and a bit old.
 
Not since the xp days...

Had to do my mac once to get a new hard drive in but iv not been re-installing for ages now, no point as vista and 7 (and osx) seem not to collapse after a while :s
 
How often? Sounds like a regular chore if you say it like that.

Formatting makes things go missing you didn't even think about and the time to reinstall everything plus download and install updates is an utter drag.

Aside from hardware changes which make the installation unusable I don't.


Why would you format for a new HDD instead of cloning and carrying on from exactly where you were?
 
I NEVER format.

I do install a new windows when my old install messes up though, which is once per 5-10 years, when the install has gone through 4 or 5 mainboards and windows gives up and randomly bosd's :p because of all the crap I install on it and all the hardware changes. I upgrade install windows when I can, just did an upgrade from vista to 7... The time before that I only installed vista because it was 64 bit and xp was 32, otherwise I'd also upgrade that.
 
I just did a clean install the other day but only because I was installing a SSD. Prior to that I just used disk images which makes life so much easier :)
 
With XP I used to re-install about every 12 months as it would become sluggish. Windows 7 has been on for 14 months so far and seems fine still, so probably only when I replace the HD.


davedudes said:
Just curious to know, I usually do it when installing new hardware.


How about you guys?
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What sort of hardware? Every time you get a new mouse or monitor? :p
 
Never , since I use acronis , if something goes wrong I restore the image
and it is all good

Currently Iam rebuilding a new image on my new SSD
 
Either every time a major piece of hardware (motherboard) changes or every year and a half - 2 years depending when i simply get bored or feel like i've installed too much crap :D

Generally though from day 1 to day 600 odd my PC runs at the same level of performance
 
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