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How often do you format your PC?

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Lager

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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:
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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