How often do you format your PC?

[Lager]

I had to format my PC today because it was getting really buggy and stuff. Not a fun time because of the long installation. :roll:

 

[cronos]

i'm lazy, probably about twice a year.

btw, it's Windows XP, and this needs a poll.

 

[Kadarin]

I have two OS partitions: Win2K and Gentoo linux. The Windows side I have formatted fairly recently, but Gentoo hasn't been formatted since the initial install almost a year ago. Gentoo is what I am running now and what runs most of the time on this machine.

 

[Crazymofo]

Everytime it fvcks up or I get a virus...

 

[So]

before winXP...every 3-6 months. Now? Once/yr.

 

[Shooters]

2 or 3 times a year but I have a ghost image of a clean install so it only takes 10 minutes.

 

[JoeKing]

Going on two years now.

 

[Nohr]

Every year or two, not terribly often. WinXP Pro

 

[Allio]

Current install is 400 days. I'm itching to reinstall, beginning to notice a lot of sluggishness and errors

Much as I like Windows, this is one big flaw that Linux doesn't suffer from.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

About one every year.

Not necessarily because of errors, but because I get bored on some days and just decide to spend it reinstalling everything.

 

[Ryan]

Twice a year.

 

[nageov3t]

whenever I have to (re: whenever I get a new motherboard). so usually once a year.

 

[YankeezXBA]

whenever i can find my lotion....

 

[Twista]

like every month lol.. maybe eairler. I like to format and stuff.

 

[Orsorum]

Once a year or so.

 

[atom]

I guess I must be super lazy because before I installed XP about 2 months ago I had a 4 year old install of Win2k that ran perfectly.

 

[MidasKnight]

Originally posted by: saxguy
i'm lazy, probably about twice a year.

Same here. Usally because of some upgrading I've done.

 

[boomdart]

Way too often...and if I can't get this damn HiJacker off my system (keeps turning my homepage to about:blank and has a search engine for some crap) I'm going to have to format again >_< Luckily this time I haven't installed jack crap...winamp, msn/aol/yahoo/kazaa/admuncher.

 

[Eli]

Only when the OS gets wonky.

This install is about 8 months old. It's been through a complete platform change, which made it a little screwy. I've been wanting to reinstall, but that's going to wait until I get a new hd.

 

[dfi]

About twice a year. Rarely out of necessity though. Usually I just get bored, think of all the junk that might be sitting around, and want that "fresh formatted freshness".

Now that I am actually using user accounts in XP, and knowing that I don't have permission to modify the registry or system files, I will probably reformat even less.

dfi

 

[Whisper]

With WinXP, it works out to maybe once/year or so...generally after a few corrupt driver installations, or something like that. Before XP, it was at least once every six months.

Don't plan on doing it again until I buy a new mobo and cpu, which should set this current format at a year and a half.

 

[Shockwave]

3-4 months.
Life with kids. For them, you just click yes to EVERYTHING that pops up on the screen.

 

[spherrod]

Still running on it's inital installation, 18 months and counting. Win XP

 

[aircooled]

Everytime I get a new motherboard. Once or twice a year.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

maybe once a year. Windows XP