Windows 7 Format Time

[hankaaron57]

Just curious to see how long people have gone before they either felt it necessary [due to significant performance dips] or decided to do it for safe keeping.

I'm curious to see how it stacks up compared to the Vista/XP systems, specifically because this is the biggest OS to date.

Please list version (home, business, etc.) and bit. Discuss performance/program problems that prompted the reinstallation.

[Indrek]

Windows 7 Professional x64. It's been about a year now since I got the laptop. First thing I did was install Win7, and I've been running the same install since. No problems whatsoever. I don't expect to have to reinstall until I finally get a new laptop and this one is re-purposed.

[pmassey31545]

I do it about every 3 months just for fun. I tinker too much with programs, drivers, etc, and kinda need to do it. Performance isn't really an issue when I do it. I just do it 'because'.

[gerryf19]

Windows 7 does not suffer from performance degradation from normal use like Windows XP did. If you are reinstalling constantly you're a hopeless screw up.

[makaveli72]

I do it about every 3 months just for fun. I tinker too much with programs, drivers, etc, and kinda need to do it. Performance isn't really an issue when I do it. I just do it 'because'.

Just for fun? Wow...I went through a lot of hell in (to get it right) cloning my HDD to my M4 SSD recently just so I didn't have to do a clean install and re-install my programs and re-do my aesthetics configurations....and here you are doing this for fun?

[makaveli72]

Windows 7 does not suffer from performance degradation from normal use like Windows XP did. If you are reinstalling constantly you're a hopeless screw up.

You mean Vista? Old faithful XP was flawless!

[gerryf19]

No, vista had performance degradation out of the box...mainly because too many PCs with it were terribly underpowered. I swear I have seen hundreds of pcs that came with vista and only 1gb of ram or less. There is a special place in hell for dell and hp execs who decided to sell vista "capable" machines with so
Little memory.

[tijo]

Hmm, i spent around a year before doing a clean install on my G73 due to me messing with hardware and software way too much (see my custom user title ). Then i did another clean install two months later due to installing a SSD. Desktop is brand new so it's been running 7 for only two months and the N50 was upgraded to 7 less than a year ago and technically it was an upgrade, not a clean install. I didn't answer the poll, none of the choices suit my situation.

[maximinimaus]

I have 4 images of my OS partition.
1. Microsoft products only(Windows 7 Sp1 and Office 2003) without any patches.
2. above with all patches(only Microsoft patches) currently available.
3. above with drivers for all devices(no exclamation mark in Device Manager)
4. my working system partition with all necessary programs.

Formatting of the OS partition is not necessary for me as my image tool restores the whole partition with all NTFS structures including MBR.

It takes 5 min to restore my OS partition.

[3Fees]

Been about at least 6 Months since formatted and reinstalled an image, when samsung had destructive firmware updates for 470 Series SSD, now they are not.....

Cheers
3Fees