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12-01-2013 10:57 AM |
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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.
(Post 10235902)
a lot of techs will reload because they either don't know the cause of a problem or because they don't want to spend possibly more time tracking it down than putting on a new drive image.
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This is unfortunately very true and has always been the case. I know someone who works for Best Buy and they basically instruct them to do just that so they'll reload people on extremely simple problems. We're talking about 5 years of junk here though and the delay at the beginning sound more serious than simple startup items.
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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.
(Post 10235902)
The average joe shouldn't need to re-install windows every 6 to 9 months, if you do, you should stay off the warez, porn, and freeware shit.
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I do it because I like a nice clean install, I just do. I don't download freeware and porn shit which causes problems for lots of people. But I use cracks and torrents and am constantly uninstalling and reinstalling games, changing things, trying out new programs or modding them, etc. For me, a reload is simply something I can do while watching a movie so it's a piece of cake. I have a 1TB drive for backing up items and a 4TB drive for media, etc. I like to save. I wouldn't recommend an average person do it too often but at 3 or more years I think most people start seeing some issues, especially because that's around when you start to see hard drives start failing on people more often. That's when you should have at the very least a backup stategy.
I spoke to a business owner once who was still on a 3.1 system and kept their financial info on it and it finally just lost it's hard drive after working for over 10 years. He didn't have anything backed up. I keep items tidily backed up and I like fresh installs.
I will admit that my last fresh reload was around 2 years instead but that's really just because I had done some pretty big modding on a few programs and didn't feel like redoing it just for the fresh reload. I finally did once I bought a new SSD.
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