Originally Posted by
Stainlessman
NO! That is an inexperienced uninformed user giving you bad advice. You do not maintain your computer with regular reinstallations of the operating system. That's ridiculous. That is only a last resort to an irevoccably corrupted OS.
I think you're going a little over-board with this. First, it's not ridiculous - it's merely an opinion. I reinstall Windows once or twice a year, or any time anything starts acting quirky, and not as a last resort when nothing else will work. I still run AV, spyware and all that, and do defrag's. But I personally just like reinstalling the OS. I also agree that things just slowly get corrupted over time. I also personally would rather just reinstall than use something like CCleaner.
Granted, for most users there are better choices to try first.
But since I don't leave it as a last resort, am I now inexperienced, uninformed and worse, ridiculous? Thank you.