How often do you reinstall Windows?

[Ryukumu]

With the blue-screen errors I mentioned in another thread, I'm heavily considering doing a reinstall of Windows 98. The longest I've ever gotten a given Windows install to go before it croaked was a year and three months. My current install is about six months old. Just out of curiousity, how often does anyone here do clean reinstalls of their OS?

 

[indianduddawg47]

once every two months - i'd like to keep it longer, but most of them time serious hard ware changes cause a need for reformat. my last reformat was 3 days ago. hope that helps!

 

[BT7990]

Next time you reinstall, make an image w/ghost after all your apps and data are setup. It's much easier to start with a "fresh" clean image. It takes 10 minutes or so to reimage, depending on the size of it. I start clean once a year or when it gets buggy.

You also might consider W2K. It's much more stable.

 

[Nothinman]

Am I experiencing deja-vu, I coulda swore there was a thread just like this recently...

Anyway, I've had my current Linux install for 4+ years now and it's survived all my hardware upgrades, too bad I can't say the same for Win2K.

 

[btvillarin]

Dude, I'm feelin' some deja-vu, too! Oh my...



<< Next time you reinstall, make an image w/ghost after all your apps and data are setup. It's much easier to start with a "fresh" clean image. It takes 10 minutes or so to reimage, depending on the size of it. I start clean once a year or when it gets buggy. >>


I do this exact same thing, except with Drive Image. Great stuff!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Ryukumu, I do a re-install about every 6 months or so, either because of some major upgrades, or my system is so hosed that I don't have a choice, hope this helps.

 

[Ryukumu]

I'm sure there are threads like this that pop up all the time. I should've paid more attention before asking the same question as somebody else. I would try imaging my hard drive, but I don't have the right software.

 

[Nothinman]

I should've paid more attention before asking the same question as somebody else

Not that it would have helped, I tried searching for it and couldn't find it either so it's not your fault.

 

[OZEE]

Dunno why everybody has so much trouble requiring Win reinstalls...

I only "reinstall" when I get a new h/d or upgrade os. I ran Win95(a) for 2+ years in two different 'puters (same h/d). Upgraded it to Win98SE over a year ago. I recently got a new h/d, so obviously did a clean install, but have since then changed mobo's, added memory, changed modems -- all without requiring a reinstall.

 

[Ryukumu]

The longest I ever got Win98 to go before totally croaking was about a year and three months. But when it started glitching up, it was pretty severe; the computer would restart whenever a data CD-ROM disk was used.