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Jeremy said:
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
You're welcome. Always glad to help.
The reason I did a reinstall was I was told that it was a good
idea
to do it about once a year to keep things clean and running
fast.
You hear that from some people, but that's a philosophy that I
strenuously disagree with. I think it's *terrible* advice.
Be very careful believing what you are told. Some of it is right,
but a lot of it is often wrong. Check with others before
believing anything.
My
computer was taking several minutes to boot up and shut down,
and the
reinstall seems to have sped that up.
Sure. You probably had lots of programs starting automatically
when you booted, and reinstalling got rid of many of them.
But that's a severe and almost always inappropriate solution to
such a simple problem. There almost certainly were far less
severe solutions. It's like cutting off your leg because your
foot itches; it always works, but it's seldom necessary.
While I still have the several folders from before my reinstall
in my
"Program Files" folder from the "WINDOWS" folder, the programs
themselves don't seem to be there as I get an error saying that
the
programs failed to initialize and to reinstall them.
Is my computer going to run faster if I reinstall Windows
again, this
time erasing my old partion? (by doing what you're calling a
clean
install) How do I do that?
As I said, I am very rarely in favor in favor of ever doing a
clean installation, much less doing it every year. Even if it
makes your computer faster, it's almost always severe overkill,
and the same result could have been achieved by a less imprudent
and severe tactic. But it's very difficult to advise you in your
current situation because it's still unclear to me exactly what
you did you.
