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When was the last time you reformatted your computer?

This month
57 (18.9%)
Few months ago
62 (20.5%)
Last year
24 (7.9%)
Over a year ago
37 (12.3%)
Never
122 (40.4%)

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patio

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Re: July monthly poll
« Reply #45 on: July 23, 2009, 05:27:36 AM »
Your XP install fits on an 8G usb stik ? ?
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    Re: July monthly poll
    « Reply #46 on: July 23, 2009, 05:44:55 AM »
    Ok, Everyone needs to know this, An year back, I used to be reformatting my computer every month, Once I had to reformat it 4 times a month!!!!!!!! The malware removal section used to be flooding with my topics.

    One day I decided that I'm not gonna call these people from my computer manufacturer company to clean my PC anymore, I almost felt like they were not cleaning the pc completely and I had to call them so many times and pay them so much money!! So I decided to learn to reformat my own computer, I read up a lot of guides and tutorials but it was confusing, but then Patio gave me this tutorial and that was it, I reformatted my computer and ever since I have never ever had a virus or any kind of malware on my computer.

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      Re: July monthly poll
      « Reply #47 on: July 23, 2009, 05:47:30 AM »
      there is a limit to how many times that you can do that if it isnt a one offered with your machine.
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      Re: July monthly poll
      « Reply #48 on: July 23, 2009, 05:51:05 AM »
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      I reformatted my computer and ever since I have never ever had a virus or any kind of malware on my computer.
      That would depend on how careful you've been on the Internet...
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        Re: July monthly poll
        « Reply #49 on: July 23, 2009, 05:53:15 AM »
        why there is a line of protection tools.
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        Re: July monthly poll
        « Reply #50 on: July 23, 2009, 05:56:59 AM »
        Quote from: squall_01 on July 23, 2009, 05:53:15 AM
        why there is a line of protection tools.

        What you on about?
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          Re: July monthly poll
          « Reply #51 on: July 23, 2009, 06:00:40 AM »
          Quote from: kpac on July 23, 2009, 05:51:05 AM
          That would depend on how careful you've been on the Internet...
          Nooey, that depended on how the pc was cleaned, those people were not completely cleaning the computer,so that they could keep coming back.
          And once I cleaned the pc myself, honeestly, sincerely, without any greed (lol) It was cleaned forever, My computing habits are same as Ever.
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            Re: July monthly poll
            « Reply #52 on: July 23, 2009, 06:02:38 AM »
            you can get stuff from any where like myspace or what not so I heard.
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            Re: July monthly poll
            « Reply #53 on: July 23, 2009, 06:13:16 AM »
            Quote from: Ivy on July 23, 2009, 06:00:40 AM
            Nooey, that depended on how the pc was cleaned, those people were not completely cleaning the computer,so that they could keep coming back.
            And once I cleaned the pc myself, honeestly, sincerely, without any greed (lol) It was cleaned forever, My computing habits are same as Ever.

            Oh, so you mean the PC was so infected that all that could be done was a reformat? Then that's okay. ;D
            Just the way you put it originally sounded like it is now impossible to get malware.... :)
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            Re: July monthly poll
            « Reply #54 on: July 23, 2009, 08:12:04 AM »
            i have not reformatted for about 2 years don't see any need/sense  to when its going fine , unless you can show me i'm wrong  ;)
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              Re: July monthly poll
              « Reply #55 on: July 23, 2009, 08:23:20 AM »
              Quote from: patio on July 23, 2009, 05:27:36 AM
              Your XP install fits on an 8G usb stik ? ?

              XP + sp3 + drivers + some updates + tools. The usb-stick even had some space left.

              I did add java + .net + new internet explorer + flash + etc. afterwards from different usb-stick

              Clonezilla strips out the pagefile and some other temporary files before it compresses everything to gzip archive. And I think that is the reason for it being so fast and small, I mean the usb-stick is not capable of reading data that fast but you are only reading gzip image and the cpu is uncompressing it in memory.
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              Re: July monthly poll
              « Reply #56 on: July 23, 2009, 08:48:47 AM »
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              i have not reformatted for about 2 years don't see any need/sense  to when its going fine , unless you can show me i'm wrong


              There is a lot to be said for the adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

              We can find examples of people who updated drivers, or updated the BIOS on the computer (the instruction set that tells the computer what to do, and how to "set" itself when you turn it on) who updated for no real reason, and got themselves into trouble, especially when "messing with" the BIOS.
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              Re: July monthly poll
              « Reply #57 on: July 23, 2009, 08:58:48 AM »
              thats true aegis , i love to mess with the pc to learn but i know how to fix it and what not to touch ( most times )
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              Re: July monthly poll
              « Reply #58 on: July 23, 2009, 12:17:00 PM »
              Re-what-mat? ???
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              Re: July monthly poll
              « Reply #59 on: July 23, 2009, 12:20:07 PM »
              reformatted , if you mean this its taking your pc back to new



              http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/reformat.htm

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