Your windows reinstall routine

[Youstolemyname]

Just about to reinstall windows. Thought it was about time after over 2 years with this current install. Things got a little sluggish on startup

I have backed up my favourites, my emails, the 'my docs' folder and have copies of all my passwords. I just have a niggling feeling I am forgetting something?

On one of my other drives I have all the latest drivers for my hardware.

The current plan is to boot from CD, format C, install windows onto C, load up latest windows updates, load up latest drivers, re-install apps and then tweak the system to how i had it followed by a defrag.

Anyone have any other suggestions to add to that routine or any other files/ bits that I need to backup?

 

[Tute]

Game saves?

 

[Killa_ken]

Hold on, your reinstalling everything you already had, and then putting back all your old files.


did I miss a trick here?

 

[Youstolemyname]

Hold on, your reinstalling everything you already had, and then putting back all your old files.


did I miss a trick here?

Yeah you did I am doing a clean install of windows so my bootup/shutdown times improve along with overall system performance. After two years of use, installing and uninstalling software, the system gets kinda laggy.

Unless you can recommend any other way?

 

[Killa_ken]

Yeah you did I am doing a clean install of windows so my bootup/shutdown times improve along with overall system performance. After two years of use, installing and uninstalling software, the system gets kinda laggy.

Unless you can recommend any other way?

I can!

Once you've done a new install and got all your software on, create an image of the hard disk and restore it when it gets slow, sure beats a reinstall every time

 

[blighter]

I can!

Once you've done a new install and got all your software on, create an image of the hard disk and restore it when it gets slow, sure beats a reinstall every time

What? then leave it two years and go and update every single program with the new version?