who else hates re-formatting their rig?

neil_g said:
You do know OSX can die over time? Some of our mac pros at work near enough grind to a halt after a while.
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You have to treat OSX horrendously for ages to slow it down properly, I've only seen machines really want a reformat once and we really abused them for a good while to get them to that point. Mine had 1500 Helveticas on it. Never had to do it on a home machine though.
 
Made a system image with essential apparently and windows updates last year, and documents etc are backed up to my NAS one a week.

restore image, restore back up and every thing else get installed as and when its needed.

takes me no more than 20 clicks to have it all fresh again.
 
I've done it once in the last three years: When Apple released Snow Leopard. I haven't bothered getting Lion yet so I haven't bothered formatting either.

Thinking about fitting an SSD and sticking Lion on it but haven't really got the motivation. Everything is ticking along nicely as it is.
 
Reformat is overrated. Of course, your machine is going run faster after reformat, because you don't have antivirus and antispyware running in the background, and other programs that slow startup!

Don't install crap and use Autoruns to disable all non-essential startup items. Get at least 4GB of ram. Image for posterity.

Re-formatting? I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.
 
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I enjoy reformatting :o

I do it once every ~4 months.

I also, just for ****s and giggles formatted my MacBook Pro with the maximum format security. Took days :(
 
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I hardly reformat my RIG these days. Sounds like windows 8 will make this sort of thing much easier with my RIG.


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PardonTheWait said:
You have to treat OSX horrendously for ages to slow it down properly, I've only seen machines really want a reformat once and we really abused them for a good while to get them to that point. Mine had 1500 Helveticas on it. Never had to do it on a home machine though.
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You can say the same about windows since Vista (at least for most people, those with genuine issues are outnumbered by the pathological haters)... XP needed a reinstall every 6 months to keep it running remotely normally. Vista and 7 just don't, unless you really abuse them.

(someone who has run a desktop and laptop on both for years, formatted vista only to install win 7 on them after 2-3 years.)
 
havent had to format since i installed windows 7 (installed on release date). The maintenance e.g defrag have kept things nice and fast.

Looks like ms got it right with windows 7. However yes, i also hate reformatting. Winxp used to slow down terribly after a year or so and a fresh format was the only way to get things back to their former glory. PITA though and you always forget something. In my case it was usually my firefox bookmarks :P.
 
Vista was installed around release and wasn't formatted till the Windows 7 RTM was leaked, I still have Windows 7 RTM installed.

There really is no need to reformat anymore (unless you're a complete idiot who gets a virus just by pressing the power button :p).
 
I have my steam games/install on my 128gb vertex ssd, downloads on a 1tb, backup 1tb and various games on another 1tb

Windows is installed on a 128 c300 ssd.

So formatting doesn't take long and I don't really lose anything.
 
Hardly ever format the PC. I think the last time was about 4 years ago.

If it's working fine then there really isn't any point.
 
It's standard maintainance and it's a good idea to do every few months. Tbh I don't really have a problem with this unless I forget to back up my saves then I get annoyed as I have to re-build them all back up again I will not have my masterful gaming history wiped out it's just not right!
 
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Vonhelmet said:
Another smug Mac user here... Re-formatting? I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.
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I'm a smug Mac user. Last time I did a format was to install Lion, before that Snow Leopard and the only reason for both was I have OCD and must do a clean install rather than an upgrade. :p

Unfortunately I have a PC. Fortunately Windows 7 is quite reliable and installed on an SSD so reinstalling isn't too onerous.
 
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