July monthly poll

[Aegis]

Hard to say ....
It's an old school habit i never lost.

No school like the old school...and who knows how much headache and heartache you've dodged over the years?

Well, except for the headaches, here.     
(I include myself.)

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I've only ever reformatted once due to a problem with Windows Update. That's all.

[computeruler]

 

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Are you trying to tell me something?

[Mulreay]

Are you trying to tell me something?

I'm with you on this one.

[quaxo]

I don't think my desktop has been formatted since it was upgraded just over a year ago.

My laptop was formatted (restored) as soon as I got it back home. See, often when you buy computers in Thailand, they immediately fill it with pirated software like Windows, Office, and just about everything else. While my laptop did come with an authentic version of Vista, they had stuck a bunch of other crap on it while they were "checking" it. Needless to say the system was all screwed up by the time I got it, so as soon as it was out of the box and powered on.

[Cityscape]

I reformat one of my 2 computers at least every 3 months.

My Xp desktop normally 3 times a year.
I'm getting ready to do a reformat again soon.

And my other one....anywhere between 14 days to 2 months.
The shortest time for a reformat is about 3-4 days.
For example: I had XP Media edition in February. I reformatted to XP Pro for march. In early April i switched to Windows 2000. A week later i installed XP Pro alongside. Then in early June I reformatted again and installed Ubuntu Linux.

Hard to say ....
But i rarely see any performance hits on the benchtest machine and none of the 5 OS's even hiccups.

What are the "5 OS's"?

[patio]

DOS 6.2 Win98SE Win2K XP and Vista.

[Broni]

We don't like ME, do we?

[Aegis]

We like YOU a lot!  Windows Millenium was the only Windows version I actually uninstalled after just a month or so.

[Broni]

I actually never touched it. I only heard, and read about it. It was enough "experience" for me

[Quantos]

I didn't format out of choice.  My craptop went in for a video issue, I got a brand new craptop out of the deal, man, was I irritated...

[Semysig]

I resist doing it at all costs.  It's a living *censored* to reinstall all the apps and configure them again   I believe this is by design by the demonseed that is M$!

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I resist doing it at all costs.  It's a living *censored* to reinstall all the apps and configure them again   I believe this is by design by the demonseed that is M$!

You can use HD Imaging software (such as Acronis True Image) to take a picture of your hard drive and print it to the newly formatted hard drive, thus keeping everything you previously had.

[Calum]

And then the point of formatting your drive would be ... what?
If you just go ahead and put exactly what was on it before, back on it, there's no difference, unless I'm missing something.