From: "Carey Dissmore" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Subject: Re: [AE] (OT) PC Users, how often do you do a clean install of the
 OS? Alternatives?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:52:01 -0500
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Years ago on Mac, and today on PC, I made the determination that clean =
installs were always a benefit on a machine that I depend on to make a =
living and frankly put through a pounding of daily abuse. So I set about =
to minimizing the pain of the clean install. I don=E2=80=99t have time =
to go into details here but the overall schema looks like this:

Prep:
Collect all your installers and serial numbers, etc. Build a text file =
containing all this necessary data.
Work out an installation order that makes sense. Something like this:
1. OS + updates
2. Drivers
3. Critical apps and their plugins (certain drivers, like Blackmagic =
ones, are best installed after the apps they empower)
4. Utilities and other second tier apps

Place your installers in numbered order folders to ease this. Order your =
text file to the same order. Now you have a plan for your clean install. =
Once built, very easily updated. I keep all the installers and these =
notes on a NAS drive.

Install in the order above, making any notes about decisions you made or =
things you encountered in your text file.=20
MAKE A DISK IMAGE after each phase of the install above. Park it =
somewhere safe (external drive, NAS, etc.)

After a week or two into the install you will have made your final =
adjustments to various system settings, etc. it might be a good idea to =
make another image of your boot drive at this point. KEEP ALL THESE =
IMAGES but now stop making them.=20

Use your machine. If you end up grabbing updates or installing things in =
the weeks or months after this, open up your text file and make a note =
of it.=20

At any time you feel system weirdness or slowdowns entering the picture, =
revert to your image (probably the latest but perhaps back to one of =
your earlier points). You have your text file to guide you as to what is =
and is not part of that image and you can update things after the =
restore very quickly.

This way you can revert back to clean install as often as necessary (I =
average 4-6 months) to remain at tip-top performance, without much pain =
at all.=20

Then, after a year or two when there have been other events such as =
major OS or app changes, or perhaps you have switched computers or =
hardware, you need to start a total new clean install. Repeat from the =
beginning at that point. You will still be in better place having the =
organizational infrastructure in place.

carey


> On Oct 10, 2017, at 1:52 AM, Evan Fotis Georgoulakis =
<AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
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> 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"..
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> However there are many utilities for image & backup / restore from =
Acronis, O&O and other companies that streamline the process.
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> On 09-Oct-17 22:49, Robert Houghton wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
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>> =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD 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.
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>> =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD 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?
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>> =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD - Robert H
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