Hi,
I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
If this is true can you answer these questions?

How often should I do this?

Why should I do this?

Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
Thanks for your help in the past.

Have a good day,
RScotti

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RScotti wrote:
> Hi,
> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
> If this is true can you answer these questions?

It's usually not true.

>
> How often should I do this?
>
> Why should I do this?
>
> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
> Thanks for your help in the past.
>
> Have a good day,
> RScotti
>
> remove "nospam" in order to email me.
>

Usually, there's no need to ever reinstall XP. Sometimes viruses and
other blue meanies screw up Windows so bad it's necessary but if you
keep your security up, maintain you computer and practice safe hex, you
can have an XP installation last for years.

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"RScotti" <rscotti1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
> If this is true can you answer these questions?
>
> How often should I do this?
>
> Why should I do this?
>
> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
> Thanks for your help in the past.
>
> Have a good day,
> RScotti
>
> remove "nospam" in order to email me.
>

If it aint broke then don't fix it - do you have a problem then?

Antioch

"RScotti" <rscotti1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
> If this is true can you answer these questions?
>
> How often should I do this?
Unless you are some major problems, the answer is never.
>
> Why should I do this?
Some systems have been trashed so badly by viruses that a clean install is
the only way to get rid of the pests.

JS
>
> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
> Thanks for your help in the past.
>
> Have a good day,
> RScotti
>
> remove "nospam" in order to email me.
>

Alias wrote:
> RScotti wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
>> If this is true can you answer these questions?
>
> It's usually not true.
>
>>
>> How often should I do this?
>>
>> Why should I do this?
>> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
>> Thanks for your help in the past.
>>
>> Have a good day,
>> RScotti
>>
>> remove "nospam" in order to email me.
>>
>
> Usually, there's no need to ever reinstall XP. Sometimes viruses and
> other blue meanies screw up Windows so bad it's necessary but if you
> keep your security up, maintain you computer and practice safe hex, you
> can have an XP installation last for years.
>


Yes - it's roughly equivalent to the old dictum that you needed a good
dose of sulfur and molasses every spring. It's simply not true.

Tony

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RScotti wrote:
> Hi,
> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
> If this is true can you answer these questions?
>


It's not true, at all. The is no valid technical reason for
periodically reinstalling the OS.


> How often should I do this?
>


After a catastrophic hard drive failure.


> Why should I do this?
>

To install the OS on the new hard drive.




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RScotti wrote:
> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so
> often. If this is true can you answer these questions?
>
> How often should I do this?
>
> Why should I do this?
>
> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
> Thanks for your help in the past.

Where ever you saw it - it's wrong.
Period.

If you need to perform a clean install, it was because you did not properly
maintain your system *or* something catastrophic happened (like hardware
failure) outside of your control.

--
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:51:14 -0400, RScotti
<rscotti1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.



Terrible advice!


> If this is true can you answer these questions?
>
> How often should I do this?


Only when you have a problem, and all other efforts to fix it have
failed. It should be a last resort.


> Why should I do this?



You shouldn't.

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Thanks everybody. You cleared up a this for me. I could swear I saw it here to do a clean install at least every year
but I can't find it now.
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:54:48 -0500, "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper******.com> wrote:

>RScotti wrote:
>> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so
>> often. If this is true can you answer these questions?
>>
>> How often should I do this?
>>
>> Why should I do this?
>>
>> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
>> Thanks for your help in the past.
>
>Where ever you saw it - it's wrong.
>Period.
>
>If you need to perform a clean install, it was because you did not properly
>maintain your system *or* something catastrophic happened (like hardware
>failure) outside of your control.
>
>--
>Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP

Have a good day,
RScotti

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Not true at all. Properly maintain your system and there is no need to
reinstall XP ever.

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"RScotti" <rscotti1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
> If this is true can you answer these questions?
>
> How often should I do this?
>
> Why should I do this?
>
> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
> Thanks for your help in the past.
>
> Have a good day,
> RScotti
>
> remove "nospam" in order to email me.
>

Oh you probably did see it here. Keep in mind that not everything you read
is accurate!

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"RScotti" <rscotti1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks everybody. You cleared up a this for me. I could swear I saw it
> here to do a clean install at least every year
> but I can't find it now.
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:54:48 -0500, "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper******.com>
> wrote:
>
>>RScotti wrote:
>>> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so
>>> often. If this is true can you answer these questions?
>>>
>>> How often should I do this?
>>>
>>> Why should I do this?
>>>
>>> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
>>> Thanks for your help in the past.
>>
>>Where ever you saw it - it's wrong.
>>Period.
>>
>>If you need to perform a clean install, it was because you did not
>>properly
>>maintain your system *or* something catastrophic happened (like hardware
>>failure) outside of your control.
>>
>>--
>>Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>
> Have a good day,
> RScotti
>
> remove "nospam" in order to email me.
>

RScotti - Regarding "...I saw some place here that I should do a clean
install every so often...." - a clean install is drastic and the "last
resort" for a prolem computer and "every so often" should not be
recommended. .

"RScotti" <rscotti1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
> If this is true can you answer these questions?
>
> How often should I do this?
>
> Why should I do this?
>
> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
> Thanks for your help in the past.
>
> Have a good day,
> RScotti
>
> remove "nospam" in order to email me.
>

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:08:39 -0400, RScotti
<rscotti1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

> Thanks everybody. You cleared up a this for me. I could swear
> I saw it here to do a clean install at least every year
> but I can't find it now.



You probably did. There *are* people who do that and recommend it to
others. Some of them post here. However, it's very poor advice.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Thanks again everyone. I will always ask if I don't know,
and NEVER just take one person's advice UNLESS they are a MVP or I see that they have done a lot of credible advice
here.
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:23:40 -0400, "AJR" <ajrjdr@comcast.net> wrote:

>RScotti - Regarding "...I saw some place here that I should do a clean
>install every so often...." - a clean install is drastic and the "last
>resort" for a prolem computer and "every so often" should not be
>recommended. .
>
>"RScotti" <rscotti1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
>news:ubglg39638pbc0qu6n6h1ohofbrfm47gac@4ax.com.. .
>> Hi,
>> I saw some place here that I should do a clean install every so often.
>> If this is true can you answer these questions?
>>
>> How often should I do this?
>>
>> Why should I do this?
>>
>> Please give all links if there are any preferably from Microsoft.
>> Thanks for your help in the past.
>>
>> Have a good day,
>> RScotti
>>
>> remove "nospam" in order to email me.
>>
>

Have a good day,
RScotti

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RScotti wrote:
> Thanks again everyone. I will always ask if I don't know,
> and NEVER just take one person's advice UNLESS they are a MVP or I
> see that they have done a lot of credible advice here.

Stick to the latter more than the former - and always mix in "never take one
person's advice"..
Just because someone is an MVP does not make them infallible.

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