How Often Do You Rebuild Your Main Desktop Machine?

[weisguy]

How often do you reload your OS and software?

[flyswatta]

I've been running on my main desktop for over 2 years now without a rebuild - mainly because I didn't back up my wife's 67,563 emails and lost her "address book" :eek: It's such a pain to find all of the cryptic files to back up and then have to find all of the software to re-install that I just don't want to do it.

BTW, my GBPVR server gets rebuilt every 6 months

[cameluk]

Just upgraded to Vista so decided to do a clean install, previously XP had been running over a year without any problems

My laptop had been running XP for 6 months before I upgraded it to Vista as well

GBPVR machine, only gets rebuilt when I upgrade the motherboard and CPU, I have no plans to upgrade it to Vista any time soon.

[reven]

i do it every year as soon as norton license runs out (too cheap to buy another one)

[herbs]

I just rebuilt my windows 2000 pc with xp this time, win 2000 had been on it for 6 1/2 years. I only rebuilt it due to the fact it would take 10 mins for turn on to usable due to so many things in the start up.

[jerry430]

My Dell with Windows XP is over five years old and I've never reinstalled the OS. I just installed a new C drive and cloned the old one so I wouldn't lose any of the installed programs.
I have a ton of installed programs that I really don't want to have to reinstall, and since the machine is still working very well, I have no plans to do so.

[elbryyan]

I used to have to reinstall windows about once every year or two when I was using win 98 but my current machine has been running solid for 3 years now with out any reloads.

[stu8080]

Welcome back reven! long time no see.

I invariable do this once a year, by that time strange things start to bug me and things slow down a bit, its easier to start fresh than try to fix things.

[robplatt]

i do it every year as soon as norton license runs out (too cheap to buy another one)

You do realize AVG is free..... Hope I didn't just effect the outcome of your life, but.... You don't have to be a Norton victim any longer.

[zehd]

sig says it all