How often do you reinstall your OS (Operating System) ?

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  1. Posts : 296
    Windows 7 baby ! : D
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    How often do you reinstall your OS (Operating System) ?


    Just curious to see
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
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    JordanJP said:
    Just curious to see
    I do a disk scrub every 60 days from a vanilla acronis backup
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  3. Posts : 1,443
    Win 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
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    I don't reinstall my OS unless it's broken. What i always do is maintaining my PC. And make sure everything runs smoothly. That's all...
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  4. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    I'm probably about once per year on my workstation at home. I used to be more frequent, but I've become far more discriminatory on what I will install that the machine doesn't get too messy any more...thus less need to clean up.
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  5. JMH
    Posts : 7,952
    Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit. SP1.
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    Never.
    No valid reason to do so has ever become apparent - to date.
    [ Each new OS comes on a brand new laptop.]
    Last edited by JMH; 05 Feb 2010 at 17:39.
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  6. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
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    The only time I've ever "re-installed" my OS is because of one of two events.

    1) Upgrading from an older version.
    2) Upgrading entire machine.

    I have never had to reinstall a Windows OS because of it being "trashed". And that goes all the way back to about Dos 3.0.

    But to answer the question...

    I probably re-install Windows every 2-4 years on each "machine" that is actively in use because of the above reasons.
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  7. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
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    Never from scratch, but sometimes from previous images.
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  8. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
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    Since Windows 98, once. The reason was to install Windows 7. Unless there is a very serious problem, I do not think it is warranted to reinstall. Just maintain the computer properly.
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  9. Posts : 108
    windows
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    i do it every 6 month. this is what i recommend for everyone. though with 7 i might have to change this. 7 does not seem to get bogged down like vista and prior with leftovers from installs and uninstalls.
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  10. Posts : 110
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86 & x64
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    Whenever a new Service pack is released I slipstream it into the base installation and do a test reinstall.

    Don't recommend novices try it though as they could screw up their system if they don't know what they are doing.
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