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Originally Posted by hometeam
Yep, its wrong.
Sorry bro, I mean nothing by it, but your windows files do not 'inevitably' lose integrity or become corrupted or anything else. There is no accidental deletion of files upon removing programs that might cause slow startup.
And you never need to reload windows unless you have a problem.
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No, it's not wrong.
I was a Technical Team Lead for a major computer manufacturer and have built my own PCs for 15 years. I got that promotion after being with the company for only 9 months. I'm really not trying to measure dicks here but I want to make it clear that I have an idea of what I'm talking about.
System files do get changed/replaced. The comments about no accidental removals/changes of system files is insane. You obviously don't remember the Myth II uninstaller fiasco that turned Bungie from an independent company to a Microsoft lackey. There's a slew of others but that's probably the most prominent example. Programmers make mistakes in their install/uninstall protocols all the time. Windows is much better now then they used to be about allowing the changes but it still happens. If it couldn't happen, no virus would ever work.
He also talks about needing to run a checkdisk on startup which could potentially point to bad sectors on his hard drive, another potential cause for system file corruption. A 5 year old PC very likely has bad sectors and very likely has some system files that have lost integrity. You can go into msconfig and edit the startup items or go directly into the run lines in the registry and make manual corrections that way but you are putting a band-aid on the problem. Why would Microsoft even have an option to Repair Windows on their disks if it couldn't happen?
The truth is it usually just depends on when you want to do a reload. I personally would choose to do it while I still had the option to back up files the easy way in windows and not wait until I no longer have that option.
That's my 2 cents, you can decide on what you choose to believe.