How often do you nuke your OS installations?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-08-04 09:04am

Two years and counting, with Win XP Pro. It's been solid as a rock so far, except for the odd driver meltdown.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-08-04 10:13am

Usually I can keep things solid for about a year or so. I'm typically careful about which sites I go to, run anti-spyware progs regularly and defrag religiously. So I manage to get the maximum life out of my machine as much as possible. Reinstalling is a pain in the ass, so the less I have to do it the better.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2005-08-04 12:35pm

With XP I average about once every six months, but that includes the time my brand new hard drive turned in it's resignation.

Post by **Edi** » 2005-08-04 02:41pm

Graeme Dice wrote:I've never re-installed, and have had no problems despite the fact that my Win98 machine has been running for about 5 years now.

And how many blood sacrifices have you performed to the Dark Gods of Redmond to manage that?

I actually ran Win98 installs without problems upwards of two years, but that was with Norton Systemworks and some heavy manual configuration and optimization.

I've had to nuke WinXP twice since I switched to it, but one of those occasions was not caused by the Windows, but a fucked up Linux installation on the same hard drive. Generally I hate reinstalling Windows because it's such a massive pain in the arse to get everything back in place, even when you have everything backed up on another partition.

Edi

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2005-08-04 03:25pm

I decided that my installation of XP64 was too junked up (after being there for a month) and replaced it with 2003 x64 last night.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-08-04 09:27pm

Usually every 3 years or so, unless my parents or someone else uses my computer and fucks something up by clicking and disabling things they should not be touching. Which doesn't happen since I don't live with them anymore and my chicks don't touch my crappy old computer. Win98 runs like a charm on my computer, mind you the only thing this computer gets used for is surfing the web, watching porn, and typing stuff so it's not like there's much on it to get in the way.

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2005-08-05 01:28am

I haven't had to Nuke this copy of XP home yet (Pushing a year and a half). The longest I've had an OS installation without Nuking is 10 years and counting for my moldy old 386 running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 .