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My last clean install of Windows was with Vista and since then I have done in-place upgrades without much hassle. There is no hardware left anymore from the ori
by hs86 7y ago
My last clean install of Windows was with Vista and since then I have done in-place upgrades without much hassle. There is no hardware left anymore from the original setup and it even survived several mainboards, switches between AMD and Intel and the boot drive migrated from an IDE HDD to an AHCI SSD.
I believe that periodic clean installs of OSes are not necessary anymore and every modern OS install should survive hardware changes and upgrades to newer versions.
- kccqzy 7y agoI totally agree. Periodic clean installation of OS for your personal computers is unnecessary and only creates hassle. I've upgraded from Leopard to Mojave without problem, with several different computers. Servers, though, are a completely different story. Servers are like cattle, but personal computers are like pets.
- shifto 7y agoThe thought alone of this makes me jitter. I reinstall my PC every 3-6 months and it's always a fresh breath of air. Probably because I know I will reinstall not too long from any point in time I just install everything I think I need. I need to convert an IMG to ISO? Let me just try these 5 apps and forget about them. They will be cleaned after the fresh install anyway.