How many times did you have to reinstall windows?
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Jump to PostEvery week, due to the nature of my work, we need fresh machines.
Jump to Posti reinstall my main pc every 3 to 6 months - always seems to break itself
vista is better - had that nearly a year and never needed to reinstall it
Jump to PostI had to reinstall one time, because some dope produced some software on CD with bogus copy protection.
The software ASSUMED that the computer had one or two floppy drives, a hard disk, and a CD drive. So it issued a command to write to the D: drive master …
Jump to PostHave to? Never.
I have done reinstalls maybe twice in 15 years by choice. One Win98 box went 5 years or so, was just getting all full of leftovers. Same for an XP box after 4 years or so. Neither was strictly necessary. My boxes tend to just keep …
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