From: "Evan Fotis Georgoulakis" Received: from [83.235.69.31] (HELO medusa.otenet.gr) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.1.0) with ESMTPS id 6333919 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:50:26 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (ppp-2-87-68-193.home.otenet.gr [2.87.68.193]) by medusa.otenet.gr (ESMTP) with ESMTPSA for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:52:23 +0300 (EEST) Subject: Re: [AE] (OT) PC Users, how often do you do a clean install of the OS? Alternatives? To: After Effects Mail List References: Message-ID: Disposition-Notification-To: Evan Fotis Georgoulakis Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:52:23 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080914 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.17 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US For what its worth, I still have a 2011 win 7x64 rig by my side still working perfectly. The old cliche applies here "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".. However there are many utilities for image & backup / restore from Acronis, O&O and other companies that streamline the process. On 09-Oct-17 22:49, Robert Houghton wrote: > Good afternoon, > > ��� Ever since I can remember, I've always took time each year or two > to format my workstation & laptop and do a clean installation of > whatever current version of windows on it. It always seemed kind of > harsh and could easily take the better part of half a workday to > repopulate it with the apps and plugins I use on it. > > ��� I'm starting to get the itch to do that once again and it just > made me wonder with how much smarter OS's and apps have been, is there > an alternative people use instead of doing a full system wipe for > maintenance of the OS and all it's billions of digital parts? > > ��� - Robert H > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to >