Reinstall your Operating System

[cheyenne1212]

lol

I have never bought a subscription to norton lol

I always just reinstall when the time comes. lol

but yeah, on 2004, its like XP its about impossible.

[DeadAddict]

Bah someone will create a key gen for it soon They have them for Microsoft products

[delstar]

I usually reformat every 3-4 months. Not necessarily because something goes wrong, but more for house-keeping purposes. Alot of junk builds up on here and i really don't like having to hunt it all down.

[DeadAddict]

Ok h3r3tic I got done with all the updates and if you are using 2003 it does give another year

[SDK]

I guest I'm good. I ran Windows 98 3 years in row without reformating. No idea who I did it! Now, I'm on Windows XP since 2 years without problem. So the question is, I usually change computer when I re-install a OS!

[CXGJarrod]

My 2k box has been running for a year now, so I guess its time to reformat. Before the last reformat I reformatted the machine every 6 months.

[nihil]

I have production machines that run 98,98se,Me,2K and XP and have been going for between 1 and 3 years without having to re-install.

I used to re-install 95 around every 6 months, as that seemed to improve performance. I guess the machines that I am running now have so much "redundancy" it isn't required anymore?

I have a few development/lab/labrat machines that I wipe and re-install regularly, for example when I have let a "nasty" lose on it or when I am starting a new project. The main reason is that I want a "level playing field" for my testing/experiments, or I need to create a particular "reference machine" environment for stability/compatibility testing purposes.

That is why I always rabbit on to newbs about getting hold of old ex-corporate boxes for experimenting, and don't do it on their main machine, shared with brother/sister, college network

It is a bit like a chemistry experiment......you don't want it contaminated by residues left over from a previous experiment?

Cheers

[skiddieleet]

Originally posted here by DeadAddict
Ok h3r3tic I got done with all the updates and if you are using 2003 it does give another year

Thank you for the confirmation. I will probably do a fresh install then if that's the case. I have so much time now, That might give me at least an hour of something to do.

[Mcvay]

well, i think i reinstall my windows box about every 2 month, not that i want to, but it just gets messy after that time...

My other computers, a hackme computer running win2000 is never being reinstalled, i just use it to test exploits on it and play with it.

And my Linux box running RedHat9 gets a reinstall maybe never.
Well, i had it running for 3 months, then i wanted to try other distro's: Gentoo, Debian, Slackware. But RedHat was just fine. Nice and complete.

Then my stupid notebook, currently running winXP, but tommorow im gonna put RedHat9 on that one as well

[DeadAddict]

Not a problem h3r3tic have fun during the hour of the install and updates.