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Originally Posted by aka123
This reformatting thing is kinda 90's and early 2000's thing. There are shitload of tools today those do great job maintaining your computer. I use CCleaner, maybe not the best, but at least it is free. + Defraggler from the same company, free also.
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How about viruses/spyware, corrupted windows files, corrupted drivers, running out of disk space, application errors you think these things are still exclusive to 15+ years ago? lol
Im not saying there isn't ways to go about searching out most problems with effort and time. But the time put into narrowing down issues and running all these apps would take more time and cause more of a headache than a fresh install that is not as time consuming as people build up in their head. most people dont even keep files organized or maintain them properly with weekly cleanup tools. Computers become a mess. Maybe you are neat and maybe you do not run a computer like most. But fresh format and install is not a thing of the past and this wasn't a question with whether or not is it possible to not need to format, it was moreso a question with whether most should or not very often.
How long would it take for you to run all the apps to fix all the potential issues i just mentioned, from start to finish? Or how about an error you dont know how to fix? To narrow it down, all of these processes would take longer than a format. (not all webmasters are tech savvy, being a webmaster only proves theyre web savvy - a format is much easier than troubleshooting problems)