Windows XP: Reasons behind reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling Windows OS?

I do a complete install of OS and all SW

Yes, installing a new HD does require the reinstallation of all SW, OS and apps. It ends up being a days task, but the reason I do it are for the refreshed HD and cleaned system and drive. I have many clients whom I do work for and I keep all their files on a separate external drive. So the install of SW is pretty straightforward, since I've done it a number of times. I just run through the same process each time and before you know it, I have practically a new machine. Once in awhile, I might throw in more RAM. But it gives me peace of mind that my HD won't just stop working, not that I'm completely safe from that ever happening, but with this type of maintenance, I have 1 less thing on my mind.

Of course, I go through a HD swap after about the year or so and by the next time I'm due, I replace my machine itself. Then another year or so again, the HD gets refreshed. So far, its worked.

I would like to point out

ALL CAPITOLS IS NOT AN ACCEPTED GRAMMATICAL STANDARD PRACTICE FOR WRITING. FOR CENTURIES CAPITOLS HAVE BEEN RESERVED FOR SPECIAL USES. THAT IS THE STANDARD PRACTICE. NETIQUETTE RULES HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE 1983; WHICH JUST ABOUT SHOWS THE LIMIT OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE.

(NT) reply to post 231- correct reply sir!!!

_'netiquitte' vs. The Needs of the FEW...

WELL FIRST I MUST SAY THAT IT'S FAIRLY CLEAR THAT (at least) EITHER I, OR, THE POSTER WHO INITIATED THIS SIDE-LINE POST, HAS SOME SORT OF MENTAL PROBLEM! ...
__ WHAT De.Re DOSEN'T SEEM TO GET OR REALIZE IS THAT MY USE OF CAPs IS NOT "selfish" AT ALL! _ AND, THAT MY POSTINGS ARE NOT INTENDED FOR THE LIKES OF SUCH READERS AS HE OR SHE HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY MUST BE.
IN FACT, IT SEEMS APPARENT (to those of us who are good thinkers), THAT SUCH AN ATTITUDE IS AKIN TO THOSE WHO PROTEST THAT English IS THE ONLY LANGUAGE THAT SHOULD BE SPOKEN WITHIN THE USA. _ IT'S NOT ONLY UNFAIR BUT, THOSE WHO ARE BILINGUAL HAVE A REAL ADVANTAGE IN LIFE! _ AS DO THOSE WHO CAN EASILY READ BOTH CAPs & non-CAPs!
__ HERE ON THIS FORUM THERE ARE FAR TOO MANY POSTINGS WHICH ARE QUITE TOO DIFFICULT TO READ FOR THE 2 to 5% OF READERS WHO ACTUALLY PREFER (but hesitant to admit it), TO READ CAPS. _ SO MY POSTINGS ARE MAINLY INTENDED ESPECIALLY FOR THEM! _ AND OF COURSE ALSO FOR THOSE WHO ARE AT LEAST CAPABLE OF READING IN CAPs.
OTHERS, WHO ARE CONSIDERABLY MORE NARROW-MINDED, CAN STILL FIND PLENTY OF OTHER POSTS (in non-CAPs) TO READ!
____ I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY GOOD AT READING non-CAPs, AND NOW AT MY ADVANCED AGE, THEY'RE EVEN MORE DIFFICULT!
I'M ALSO UNABLE TO TYPE VERY WELL AT ALL, AND, SO AS TO BE ABLE TO (relatively quickly) READ WHAT I'M TYPING, I NEED TO TYPE CAPs!
SORRY, (a little for that), I GUESS.
__ NOW YOU, (the individual reader), CAN DECIDE FOR YOURSELF (and make your own conclusion), AS TO WHETHER OR NOT IT IS I, (Good-PC.Guy!), WHO HAS THE (worst) MENTAL-PROBLEM.

____ FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO FIND ANY OF THE POSTINGS TO BE DIFFICULT AT ALL TO SEE & READ, I SUGGEST THAT YA TRY HIGH-LIGHTING THE PRINT, AS I, (for one), HAVE FOUND THAT DOING SO, REALLY HELPS A GREAT DEAL!
PLEASE GIVE THAT A TRY.
UNTIL THESE FORUMS ARE FIXED TO MAINTAIN THE EXACT SAME SPACING WHICH WE HAVE ORIGINALLY TYPED-IN, I KNOW OF NO OTHER WAY TO MAKE THEM EASIER TO READ (directly).

for 'definereality' only...

dear side-poster,, first af all, i made absolutely no such definate "assumptions" about you!
sorry that my wording somehow allowed you to assume a way to have done that!


1) - yes, i guestimated on the percentage, based on just my own experience.
it would be interesting to know what you would find if you offered your peers in general, two separately typed paragraphs,, one done in CAPs and the other in non-caps, and see which they prefer to take to read!
i'd bet you that well over one in twenty would take the one done in caps.
(with my own peers, at least 4 out of 5 take the one in caps!)

2) - i was not aware that this forum has such an anti-CAPs rule. wonder where you read that?
i admit to being in the minority! but i specifically pointed-out that i do not care to address the majority!! just mainly my minority.
the only others who i actually care to earn respect from are those others who are within my same minority.
those other others who allow themselves to be so easily brainwashed by rules which were originally only brought into being, for just a small part of the net, ('chatting'),, i'm afraid i can't give much respect to. SORRY!


i thank you for the tip on how to possibly convert all CAPs to non-CAPs.
i may check into it to see if such would really work just as you've claimed.
(as this posting is taking me 4to5 times longer to finish.)

i confirm as i indicated previously... my intent has been to NOT be "selfish"!!
if i actually were so as you think, i'd not bother to post any of my advice at all!

have a nice night.

Sins of the Pass

In reply to: Reasons behind reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling Windows OS? by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 

Nothing like a fresh OS