not quite right
I'm not cool enough to be a Mac person
join:2001-06-23
Puyallup, WA
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Re: [XPHome] How often do you do a clean install?
Just suck it up .... it was time a looong time ago. I do a fresh install with any major hardware upgrade, and "spring clean" at least once a year weather it needs it or not. Never quite understood why people will put up with a poorly running machine, or spend 10 times longer trying to fix a hosed install. 
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dibbb
join:2003-09-19 | I wipe and reinstall my PC's about once every 2 years or so. |
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alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA
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said by not quite right  :Just suck it up .... it was time a looong time ago. I do a fresh install with any major hardware upgrade, and "spring clean" at least once a year weather it needs it or not. Never quite understood why people will put up with a poorly running machine, or spend 10 times longer trying to fix a hosed install. Well I kind of agree with Not Quite Right, but I think he over does it. He is correct, you are way over due for a Clean Load. Changing Mobo's is a major Hardware change and should require a Clean Load, especially from an upgraded OS. Motherboards and HDD should require a Clean Load. |
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dave
Premium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
·Verizon Online DSL
 ·Verizon FIOS
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said by not quite right : Never quite understood why people will put up with a poorly running machine, or spend 10 times longer trying to fix a hosed install. Never quite understood why people think systems run poorly if they're not frequently reinstalled, or why people so readily decide to reinstall without even understanding the problem first. |
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La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
Premium
join:2001-07-12
Warwick, NY
clubs:
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| ^^ Agree. Never could understand this strange need to reinstall just......because. Even if nothing is wrong. I haven't reinstalled on this XP Pro box in three years and it's running great. Then again, I try to not bork it up doing silly things if at all possible. |
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jabarnut
Light Years Away
Premium,MVM
join:2005-01-22
Galaxy M31
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said by dave :said by not quite right : Never quite understood why people will put up with a poorly running machine, or spend 10 times longer trying to fix a hosed install. Never quite understood why people think systems run poorly if they're not frequently reinstalled, or why people so readily decide to reinstall without even understanding the problem first. I also agree.
I've been running XP Pro on two machines since...(heck, I don't know, since it was first released I suppose), and I've NEVER started from scratch and done a new clean install.
You kidding? What a PITA that is!
Fact is, my machines run just as well as the day I first installed the OS...heck, I don't know, maybe better.
I do however, keep a fresh image of my system partition reasonably up to date, and also keep a record of what's changed since the last image.
Therefore, if I do have a problem (and worst case scenario, have to restore a previous image), I tend to know exactly what it was that caused the problem.
I've known other people who start from scratch just for the sake of feeling "clean" again....I'm just not one of them.
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lmacmil
join:2001-01-26
South Bend, IN
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said by not quite right :Just suck it up .... it was time a looong time ago.... I do a fresh install with any major hardware upgrade You're probably right about that 
And this was a very major hardware (mobo, CPU, memory, video). |
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BoulderHill1
join:2004-07-15
Montgomery, IL
·AT&T DSL Service
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said by dave :said by not quite right : Never quite understood why people will put up with a poorly running machine, or spend 10 times longer trying to fix a hosed install. Never quite understood why people think systems run poorly if they're not frequently reinstalled, or why people so readily decide to reinstall without even understanding the problem first. I think there is an assumption here that people "think systems run poorly if not frequently reinstalled". That is not the case. The system runs poorly for other reasons such as it has been jacked with, infected with some sort of malware/scareware, major settings tampered with, etc..
As Not Quite Right said, why spend all that time trying to fix a hosed install that in most cases never really fixes the problem, when one can save all personal data, wipe the drive and reinstall th OS in 1/10th the time. I have in the past done all the typical things one would do to "fix" infected, compromised or otherwised hosed machines such as running the whole battery of AV scanners, spyware tools, HiJackThis, etc. only to lose hours and hours of time and still have a machine that does not work properly.
I do this on a regular basis for my customers. They will bring me a machine that has been compromised in one way or another, typically due to some sort of malware infection. I will invariably ask them what personal data they have on the machine that they do not want to lose. Then the typical repair route is to backup that data, wipe the drive, reinstall the OS and other software and updates, and then restore personal data.
Customer recieves back a machine that I am completly confident will work and work as it should. All this for $50.00 |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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said by not quite right :Just suck it up .... it was time a looong time ago. I do a fresh install with any major hardware upgrade, and "spring clean" at least once a year weather it needs it or not. Never quite understood why people will put up with a poorly running machine, or spend 10 times longer trying to fix a hosed install. My machine is 4 years old I have never done a fresh install. My machine works fine. How do you know how my machine runs? How do you know it's running so poorly that somehow a fresh install would make it run better? |
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quatrix
Premium
join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL
| reply to alchav
said by alchav :Changing Mobo's is a major Hardware change and should require a Clean Load, especially from an upgraded OS. Motherboards and HDD should require a Clean Load. Uh, no. |
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not quite right
I'm not cool enough to be a Mac person
join:2001-06-23
Puyallup, WA
| reply to BoulderHill1
said by BoulderHill1 :said by dave :said by not quite right : Never quite understood why people will put up with a poorly running machine, or spend 10 times longer trying to fix a hosed install. Never quite understood why people think systems run poorly if they're not frequently reinstalled, or why people so readily decide to reinstall without even understanding the problem first. I think there is an assumption here that people "think systems run poorly if not frequently reinstalled". That is not the case. The system runs poorly for other reasons such as it has been jacked with, infected with some sort of malware/scareware, major settings tampered with, etc.. As Not Quite Right said, why spend all that time trying to fix a hosed install that in most cases never really fixes the problem, when one can save all personal data, wipe the drive and reinstall th OS in 1/10th the time. I have in the past done all the typical things one would do to "fix" infected, compromised or otherwised hosed machines such as running the whole battery of AV scanners, spyware tools, HiJackThis, etc. only to lose hours and hours of time and still have a machine that does not work properly. I do this on a regular basis for my customers. They will bring me a machine that has been compromised in one way or another, typically due to some sort of malware infection. I will invariably ask them what personal data they have on the machine that they do not want to lose. Then the typical repair route is to backup that data, wipe the drive, reinstall the OS and other software and updates, and then restore personal data. Customer recieves back a machine that I am completly confident will work and work as it should. All this for $50.00 Thank You! ..... at least someone got the point I was trying to get across. Believe me when I say I've seen more poorly running machines than I ever have good running ones. 
You power users have to realize you are not the norm, and I wasn't really talking to you.
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