How often do you reinstall windows?

rohan · 17-10-2007, 09:38 AM

It's that time again... games won't run.. everything's sluggish.. half of the programs run with problems.. rest half won't run at all. And well.. it's time to reinstall windows. So, my question is.. how frequently do you need to reinstall windows? My question is how often you *need* to.. i am referring to the times when your computer just won't work without a reinstall.. coz i've seen retards reinstalling windows frequently just because some useless techguy told him to do.

The_Devil_Himself · 17-10-2007, 10:35 AM

^^why is there no choice for once every 2 weeks?Thats more like it for me.

gxsaurav · 17-10-2007, 10:43 AM

How the hack do u guys use your system? Don't u ever clean your system for temp files etc, it only takes 4 mins weekly using CCleaner & TuneUp utilities Registry cleaner, & perfectdisk.

Whats the point of reinstalling WIndows? I m still using Vista installed in november 2006

SunnyChahal · 17-10-2007, 10:45 AM

i reinstall my win every 2-3 weeks.

desiibond · 17-10-2007, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by abtom

i reinstall my win every 2-3 weeks.

Do you download lot of viruses and worms?

prateek_san · 17-10-2007, 11:30 AM

in 6-10 mnths.....

SunnyChahal · 17-10-2007, 11:33 AM

@desibond-lol,i DL torr**s.
so some viruses come with them.
thats why i have to reinstall my win coz it becomes so slow.
but i wont have to do that now as i got zone alarm.
earlier i had F**NG nav 06 which FU***KED my PC.

Charan · 17-10-2007, 11:34 AM

6-10 months .. if xp is in "rot" mode then I switch to linux , then back again

rohan · 17-10-2007, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by gx_saurav

How the hack do u guys use your system? Don't u ever clean your system for temp files etc, it only takes 4 mins weekly using CCleaner & TuneUp utilities Registry cleaner, & perfectdisk.

Whats the point of reinstalling WIndows? I m still using Vista installed in november 2006

u r so not a geek...

iMav · 17-10-2007, 11:38 AM

vista i havnt re-installed since the day i first installed it maybe some 8 months ago well same is the case with xp last i re-installed was wen i bought a new hdd so that wud make it like 3 years and once re-installed ... wonder wat u ppl do on ur pc that u need to do all this

Kiran.dks · 17-10-2007, 11:46 AM

I have only once reinstalled Windows for a period of 1.8 months. That to due to virus attack. It made some unrepairable changes in registry.

adi007 · 17-10-2007, 12:23 PM

First i wolud reinstall windows once in 2 weeks

and now I have made a clean backup copy of Windows XP with all softwares installed by using Acronics True Image and i just restore the backup when something happens

arunks · 17-10-2007, 12:26 PM

why is there no option "daily like install"

almighty · 17-10-2007, 12:30 PM

I reinstall within 2 months or can say in a month

coz i try my slipstreamed xp and observe any bug... if i find one then after fixing those bugs i reinstall again....

but now I have the ultimate version of xp which dont have any bug in my knowledge...

bug in the sense of s.w or updates which i integrate in xp....
I reinstall xp trice in a day when i was slipstreaming sata/raid drivers in xp

and that was the most happiest day when i find a way to install xp with pressing F6 during installation

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why is there no option "daily like install"

LOL coz u no one install it daily... seems u install daily.

huh

desiibond · 17-10-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by iMav

vista i havnt re-installed since the day i first installed it maybe some 8 months ago well same is the case with xp last i re-installed was wen i bought a new hdd so that wud make it like 3 years and once re-installed ... wonder wat u ppl do on ur pc that u need to do all this

@gx & imav,

Why don't you guys post some tips that you follow to keep your system clean, the tools you use to keep it fast and tidy.

ax3 · 17-10-2007, 12:45 PM

after 7-8 months ..... bt using NORTON GHOST ...... easy 2 use & no hassels of searching & loading all those softwares from cd\dvd`s ........

gxsaurav · 17-10-2007, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by desiibond

@gx & imav,

Why don't you guys post some tips that you follow to keep your system clean, the tools you use to keep it fast and tidy.

All I use is

1) Ad muncher for blocking out ads in web pages & softwares

2) Outlook 2007 & WLMD for checking my mails, so no attachment which might be dangerous opens up automatically

3) PerfectDisk, once a month

4) CCleaner, once a week

5) Tune Up Utilities, I clean the registry once a week, & defragment the registry once a month

6) I only install what I need, & not to keen with trying different softwares. For that I use VMWare virtual machine installation of Windows XP, got 2 GB RAM here so no problem running vista & VM in it

7) All the files I save go to there respective folders. Its not hard to find anything in my computer, every image goes to Picture folder, every video goes to movies folder, Artwork goes to illustration folder etc...U never need to use the Search feature of Windows Vista in my computer.

8 ) I don't use any anti virus which helps in keeping the system fast. Who needs an AV.

9) Frequent Windows Update.., software patches & driver updates.

10) Most important, Common sense

11) Registry tweaks as needed, with those features I don't need disabled via services.msc & Group Policy Editor.

iMav · 17-10-2007, 01:00 PM

gx does a lot more than i do

just know what ur installing and the source from where ur installing like i know a lot of my frenz download stuff from limewire now if u observe a lot of music and vdo search results turn up with files of sizes in kb which are 100% viruses so chk wht ur downloading

use a good av and when i say that i am saying norton and mcafee suck use nod32 or avast and keep them updated ... using a pirated av means ur already compromised and add to that the fact norton and mcafee dont detect a lot of viruses i use windows firewall & defender and on gx's recommendation i am using ad mincher as of now

e-mails - chk them online and then download them .... most sites now have very good filters but still dont download all ur mail and chk the atachments see online and then download

besides that as gx said disable all that u dont want .... in my case i dont disable everything because my dad or some relative fren will come and ask for something

other than that just know where ur clicking

din · 17-10-2007, 01:08 PM

I remember how happy and curious when I saw the message - You are going to run windows for the first time - in win 98 install. But after installing Lin and messing up with the win partitions (8 yrs back) I saw the same message more than 5 times on the same week

Its fun to reinstall and re-partition often when we learn etc but once we start working and when 'time is money' its not that fun.

@gx_saurav

Lier, lier lier

Either you forget things very fast or you lie a lot

Don't you remember installing Vista at 2.00 AM on your birthday ? That was in Sep !!!

@iMav

Yes, I think you are right

gx does a lot more than you do lol

gxsaurav · 17-10-2007, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by iMav

e-mails - chk them online and then download them .... most sites now have very good filters but still dont download all ur mail and chk the atachments see online and then download

I forgot to mention. I don't download emails directly in my Outlook. I first download only the email headers which take usually 100 kb of 60 mails. Then I select what I need to download to this computer & delete what I don't need.

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Originally Posted by din

@gx_saurav

Lier, lier lier

Either you forget things very fast or you lie a lot

Don't you remember installing Vista at 2.00 AM on your birthday ? That was in Sep !!!

, thats beyond the scope of discussion of this thread. besides...I installed at someone else's computer

din · 17-10-2007, 01:13 PM

No, no, according to iMav's theory, nothing is beyond the scope of the thread.

And topic is "How frequently do you need to reinstall windows?" and not "How frequently do you need to reinstall windows in your PC ?"

iMav · 17-10-2007, 01:16 PM

which theory is that u want to talk abt all that aur naam mera le rahe ho waah waah

praka123 · 17-10-2007, 01:16 PM

someone is pwned

iMav · 17-10-2007, 01:17 PM

who

bhai daaru billi ke haath mein hai aur chadi aap ko hai

din · 17-10-2007, 01:18 PM

@iMav

LOL, now don't get mad, was just kidding only.

When I came back to Thinkdigit after a long break we had a small fight like I asked u to stick on to some topic (I think it was some Vista thread that gone to Karan Johar etc etc

) and you told me the discussion will go wherever we take it.

Eventhough I objected at that time, I agree on that now

iMav · 17-10-2007, 01:20 PM

me not mad

i know that is why i told u threads go here there everywhere

and wen i say everywhere i mean everywhere

Kiran.dks · 17-10-2007, 01:51 PM

Stop spamming guys.

vaithy · 17-10-2007, 01:51 PM

Hello!

When I bought my newcomputer with winXP preinstalled, after six months, when my system refuse to boot I have to call the Vendor..He has taken the hard disk saying that the hard disk was worthless, since it attacked by boot sector virus.. that was my first lesson in Windows kindergarden... after replaced by new hard disk it happened to be frequently from 3 to 5 months.. after dual booting with fedora and Suse it happened to dragg at least 7 to 10 months( it seems linux automatically dosfsck it and correct the problems if any but not wholly..
Next stage is When I purchase this compaq laptop with windows VISTA, and it didn't survive not more than One month.. Other Linux OS are working beautifully, even my children who love Windows Games, and strangulated me whenever I mess with Windows XP, are now not worrying with windows anymore, because they found Ubuntu , and mandriva distros are more interesting so they are probing it,so without reinstalling Vista with my recovery cds, I kept Vista in the BSD ( not Blue Screen Death but Black Screen Death, in Vista expect the black screen announing some files are corrupt or missing reinstall or contact...blah..blah..) So there is no question of reinstalling Vista now..

with regards,
vaithy

Hitboxx · 17-10-2007, 04:50 PM

Its been 4 years since I installed WindowsXP, never did it again, except when I upgraded my cpu to a C2D, didn't even re-install then, just connected the hardware, XP refused to boot, did a quick repair and all was well. I don't even have any antivirus installed much less any other bloatware.

Reason is very simple, I use Linux for everything except gaming online which I've been doing everynight for the past 3 years on Windows.