Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
bloodline wrote:
If it's been twelve month since your last reinstall... then I'm sorry to say, it's time to back everything up and reinstall windows. 'Tis the way of Windows.
Not necessarily, I've had my laptop not being reinstalled for more than a year, until I installed Visual Studio 2008 on it (got it for a low price, special student offer). Visual Studio 2008 really screwed up my system. I didn't have to pay much for it, but to think of paying the full price for such a disastrous product which IMHO couldn't even be in Alpha stage :pissed:
One of my PCs is going on 5 years with the same XP install. (3 years on the machines I maintain at work, which are used constantly on a daily basis.) Minus file corruption or hardware fault, Windows can easily be maintained indefinitely.
Granted, a re-install is necessary is some (rare) cases, but it's better practice to fix the problem IMHO.
