I've forgotton how a nice new Wincows installation felt

[Ricochet J]

The last time I backed up my data and reformated was one and a half years ago.
Since then, it was slow to start. Once it did start it was a powerful machine, but some demanding applications took longer to start up too.
I consider myself to have a powerful machine as well:
AMD Athlon 64 Winchester 3200
HIS x800xl
1024MB, 1GB GeIL RAM

Anyway, to the point. Today I did a backup and a clean reformat and bloody wow! All those demanding applications are working a bloody breeze!
I know the previous slow downs before the reformat wasn't due to spyware because i'm up to date when it comes to security, (AV, Firewall, Antispyware, Regcleaners, the works) and it traced nothing!

Moral of the story. Backup and reformat at least every six months

Edit: To add to that, i'm also very thoroughly impressed with IE7!

 

[bledd]

get all your programs as you want them, then on another pc, install acronis true image, create a bootable cd, then from that cd in your main pc make an image of the drive and keep it safe somewhere, now you dont need to format, you can simply restore the image every few months


also, www.nliteos.com

^lets you strip out the crap from xp, so its super slim and everything will be a lot faster again been using it for years

 

[Greenlizard0]

Make sure you run ccleaner as well periodically. Everyfew days it deletes around 200Mb from my windows drive!!

 

[wizardmaxx]

get all your programs as you want them, then on another pc, install acronis true image, create a bootable cd, then from that cd in your main pc make an image of the drive and keep it safe somewhere, now you dont need to format, you can simply restore the image every few months


also, www.nliteos.com

^lets you strip out the crap from xp, so its super slim and everything will be a lot faster again been using it for years

I do something similar. New Wincows install every month

 

[Deleted member 58846]

Moral of the story. Backup and reformat at least every six months

only six months ? lol I do it atleast once a month. I have made a DVD that puts my os on for me and all my applications and updates and hotfixes. Tis cool.

 

[_Jimlad_]

i would like to make a cd like this, but only have 1 pc... can it be done?

 

[bledd]

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/

there you go

EVERYTHING you need to know is on that site

 

[Raumarik]

i would like to make a cd like this, but only have 1 pc... can it be done?

If you use Ghost you can easily do it with one PC and write everything to a DVD or a 2nd partition.

 

[bledd]

use acronis true image if you just want to revert to a clean installation