Rxdoxx
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Re: [XPHome] How often do you do a clean install?
Installed 3/21/05 XP Pro
I've tweaked things so heavy that I dread ever having to go through, screenshot is just an example of a small area worked on.
I delete, I use registry cleaners, anything I can to keep the system running smoothly. Never reinstalled short of a total meltdown.
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dave
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said by r81984  :said by dave :said by r81984 :Why would you waste your time doing all that?? So that the registry will be 'fresh' of course. There's nothing so off-putting as a registry that has a, um, stale odor that even its best friends won't tell it about. Are you serious??? Let's see: vague allusions to personal hygiene products in the context of a tree-structured disk database. What are the chances I'm being serious? |
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Exidor
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Brampton, ON | reply to lmacmil
Original install 1/09/03...no noticeable smells.  |
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Dryden
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Bensenville, IL | Used to be yearly with Win98 and previous - then less frequently with XP. Since moving to Vista on realease day one I've reinstalled one time and that was because I hosed the machine. |
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I used to do re-installs about every year or year 1/2 which always came with a new hard drive.
Ever since I put a 500gb HDD in my laptop I haven't reinstalled Windows XP Pro/Vista (its a dual boot) in a little over a year and have no plans on reinstalling the OS' unless I put a bigger HDD in my lappy. Even when I get Windows 7 I plan on tri-booting everything on this one drive without reinstalling the other OS'.
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