How often do you reformat?

[HavocXphere]

Used to be regularly with older versions, but what about Win 10?

Doesn't seem super necessary with Win10...but thinking it might be time after what 2 years or so...

 

[Genisys]

6 months to a year. When I feel lag, I reinstall.

 

[Dan C]

With acronis. Never.

 

[Dirtdiver]

Never..unless pc hardware breaks.

 

[Pho3nix]

Have "reset" it but haven't formatted in a long time.

 

[werfie]

Every 3 months.

 

[LazyLion]

6 months

 

[biometrics]

Never.

 

[cguy]

Also, never. Last time I did that was for my prior PC build, which was 2009.

 

[Creag]

Never.

 

[nicbst]

My PC has been running Windows 7 since the day I built it in December 2013. When you don't install crap on 7, it can run forever

 

[Brawler]

Stopped doing that from Windows 7 upwards.

 

[Sl8er]

Never.

This.

 

[supersunbird]

I was on 4 years on Win7 and had to reinstall after a big issue, now on another 2 years on Win7 reinstall still.

Even on XP I went years between reinstalls.

This isn't Win98 where it was basically the thing to do to reinstall every 6 months.

 

[Anthro]

Every two weeks I grab my cloned HDD and start from scratch (recent steam backup is the only thing that get's carried across)

 

[Vegeta]

Every two weeks I grab my cloned HDD and start from scratch (recent steam backup is the only thing that get's carried across)

I never format. I install office and steam that's it. Fokkof with anything else I like my sheat lean.

 

[Lord Farquart]

Used to do it every 6 months or so, but since I cloned to an SSD, I have not in the last 3 years. Absolutely no need to.

EDIT: Terminology fail

 

[Solitude]

Never. Things have been running smoothly for a long time.

 

[LinuxMan]

With an SSD it is no longer needed, but good practice, every 2yrs now.

 

[sand_man]

Anytime after about a year depending on performance...