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I had no idea that people reformatted so often. It seems like such a pain in the ass. I've never reformatted a computer. I had my first computer for about 4 years, got rid of it when it was waaay outdated. My second computer died, but that was because of mechanical problems with the HD, not reg or fragmentation issues. The disk just stopped spinning and wouldn't work on my new one either. I had that for 4 years also. I just built a computer this year and it's also run great. Either the performance never declined or it was so slow and steady that I never noticed. I'm not that careful either but I've never had a virus either. Maybe I'm just super lucky.
I've been with my employer for three years. We are a small company and my boss also is like our basic "IT" guy also in addition to his normal tasks. We also have a company contracted for any issues beyond his knowledge. In the time I've worked there, not a single computer has ever been reformatted. The only new computers we have bought were only bought because the office was broken into and half of our computers were stolen. All of our actual work is stored on the server (backed up every day) so the computers are just boxes that run the programs. Therefore, I've only used my C: drive for storing mp3's. Maybe that makes a difference.
My friend was telling me how he reformats every six months, I thought it was just him being himself because he's a little paranoid and a bit of a hypocondriac (sp).
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