mmmmmmm... freshly formatted computer.....

[AkumaX]

yummmmmm... fast.......

 

[tcsenter]

Ghost it.

 

[Zugzwang152]

cherish it, for soon you will know pain.

 

[Conky]

I just redid my machine(Win2Kpro) and you forget how fast a freshly formatted system runs. But for some reason any time I run isobuster, it bluescreens. Not like that's the end of the world but it's buggin me.

 

[Looney]

I take very great care to keep my system slim and optomize... i do biweekly defrags, i attempt to clean up the registry every few months, and still, it eventually slows down. It's not that slow, but definitely isn't as fast a fresh format... and i just don't know why that's so.

 

[Pilsnerpete]

It's Norton running in realtime.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Pilsnerpete
It's Norton running in realtime.

No, because i don't have it running in realtime. I only load it when i need to use it.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I take very great care to keep my system slim and optomize... i do biweekly defrags, i attempt to clean up the registry every few months, and still, it eventually slows down. It's not that slow, but definitely isn't as fast a fresh format... and i just don't know why that's so.

Microsoft inserts the EMB engine into their code before they compile a new OS. That way, when a system starts running really slow, they can sell the next version as being a "faster" OS. Just look at the neweset XP service pack, many report that it slows their system nearly to a halt. It's because they forgot to add the EMB so they snuck it in the service pack.

EMB: Expiration Molasses Bug

 

[JoPh]

that reminds me. its almost time for my regular format.

 

[Psycho18]

This reminds me when I had the blue screen. I turned of my PC like 200 times and I got the blue screen everytime it rebooted. P.O.S...Thank god I have a dell...WHAT, WHAT WAS THAT!?!?! *DUDE YOU'RE GETTING A*cough* DELL!?!?!?**Smoking weed in the back coughing*

 

[NokiaDude]

I've had my Windows XP Pro install for about 5 months now and I've barely noticed any slow down. I must be special!

 

[LordJezo]

What do you use for the registry clean?

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I take very great care to keep my system slim and optomize... i do biweekly defrags, i attempt to clean up the registry every few months, and still, it eventually slows down. It's not that slow, but definitely isn't as fast a fresh format... and i just don't know why that's so.

Because it's Windows.

 

[djheater]

fresh formats are good, if I weren't so damn lazy and had backed up everything I need to, I could do a fresh format too.

 

[Carbo]

It's been a few weeks past the one year mark since I installed XP Pro. I do notice a lot of crap hanging around my 'puter, and a general slowdown of sorts. I was thinking it's probably due for a format and fresh install. I just don't have the time. Maybe next year.............if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
yummmmmm... fast.......

formatted mine 3 weeks ago




doing great here too

 

[dquan97]

Sounds like something I need to do too...feeling too lazy to do it...

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
cherish it, for soon you will know pain.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Ghost it.

Exactly. I still have a 1.8GB .GHO file of a "fresh" install of XP+base apps dating back to Oct 2002. When this puppy gets fat, I'm restoring with it...