gowriindia

@gowriindia (22)

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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Just an Ordinary Owl? Unless you are in the business of testing software or actually studying viruses, there is absolutely no need to reformat the hard disk so often. First of all, install a good antivirus and firewall software. AVG Free is as good as any of the paid ones. It...

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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jshekhar Hello Gowri, You name suggest you are an Indian, like me. Coming to your topic, I do not face virus attacks on my laptop so I have not formatted it even once since I purchased it, which was in August 2007. People have told me that you should format it at...

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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taki_takaishi I only format my computer If there is a virus that I can't really remove that even anti-virus can't even remove it. Some of my friends say that formatting the computer at least 10 times a year is bad, because it can destroy the inside components of the...

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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rakesh284 Hi Gowri I have formatted my system four times in 3 years. The last I formatted dirty formatting. I just formatted my Local Drive without formatting any other drive because There was some important data in other drives. But still unfortunately one of my...

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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prasanna1990 hello my friend hope you are a new mylotter and hope you start a good discussion for the first one itself any my answer would be i would not format my computer that much quickly as such i do have a good licensed version of antivirus which helps me to avoid the...

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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underdogtoo My computer got attacked by a virus and my avg antivirus could not fight it. I found another one, avast and it cleaned my computer nicely without a reformat. Cheers!!

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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shelinbpo i also format my computer one month one time. format is not good in hard disk

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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raghul77ster i have the habit of formatting system once in a year or just when i need. i use the software known as "deep freeze", in my computer. i had installed that software only on c drive. once the system is restarted, including the virus, all progrmas will...

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gowriindia liked this • 14 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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Sreekala Hi Gowri, Earlier we were running net in three computers through LAN and had much problem with virus and formatted computer every alternative month. Now we disconnected the LAN facility and running net only in one computer and installed anti virus software....

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gowriindia liked this • 11 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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lamborghs Hi Gowri, I format my computer 2 or 3 times in a month. this is because my brother do something in computer and brings the virus somehow. i dont know what to do with him. better i must buy a seperate computer for me. happy lotting. have a nice day!

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gowriindia liked this • 11 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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srijshm 30-45 days seems too often. I used to go for years without reformatting, until recently. A cleaning cd used to sort out most of the problems. Of late i started clicking on ptc sites & some of them placed bugs in my system which forced me to reformat. I...

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gowriindia liked this • 11 Mar 09

How often do you format your computer?

gowriindia @gowriindia (22) • India 11 Mar 09

I format my computer once in 30 to 45 days due to virus attack. How about you guys? Often formatting the hard disk is not so good?

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benny128 reformatting is abit of over kill generally, Only time I really re-format my pc is if I am selling my pc or giving it to friends, 99% of virus's can be sorted if you know what your doing, plus safe mode is a great way to trouble shoot.

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