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Originally Posted by aka123
Fresh install is pain in the ass. Not because it would be hard, because it is fresh install. It is starting over in good and in the bad. I did fresh install this spring and I still haven't 70 % of the programs I used to have. It is a real pain to install shitload of programs again, game's save files, rescue files and settings, etc. Installing the Windows, etc. is the easy part, the rest ain't so.
Apps don't fill my hard drive. I have about 1 terabit worth of disk space and that is not even much in these days. Apps are nothing with that capacity, it is the other things those take the space.
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How come you did a fresh install?
Strange, guess it depends on the computer. I work on my computer and am on it nonstop and do alot on my computer and formatting is not a pain in the ass, then again, im sure when you dont ever do it, you forget some stuff to backup or dont have a good organized way to do it. For me, I have a folder for the few things i need to manually put back in, for example, IM/Email history/game save data/bookmarks/photoshop action files/lightroom files, but thats about it. The rest is media files that I just keep on the external because theres no need for them on your windows drive. If you keep your files on a non OS drive, theres no real worry about backing up anything and if you format every 1 year or 2, it doesn't get unorganized
To reload on the files i need on my OS drive (setting files i mentioned above), takes no more than 5 min for myself and i think i run alot of applications and games. Reinstalling the applications doesn't take very long for me. Especially since you just reinstall the ones you use on a daily basis, over time you collect them again (also allows you to get the newest versions)
I do understand people get anxious about this kind of stuff, so in their heads, seems like a bigger process than it is. The stress of possibly losing files, stress of having to put everything back, even if it doesn't take that long, etc - just easier to avoid that for some. But I do think saying its probably not needed on most peoples computers who use it for many many purposes, would be incorrect