How frequent do you format your system ?

@pardhu8 (390)
India
January 30, 2009 12:17am CST
Well i format my system once in a month.Whenever my system looks sluggish i'll simple format my system.I never use System Restore Option.what about you ? Do you format or restore it previous state? How frequent do you format your system ?
12 responses
@gcabando (313)
• Philippines
8 Feb 09
As frequent as When my system start to slow down. I do it frequently because I dont have an antivirus installed on my computer. I am not worried if I will format my computer because I save my important files in another harddrive.
@pardhu8 (390)
• India
9 Feb 09
Is there any special reason for not using antivirus.Because now a days without antivirus it's hard to run the computer.
@melvill (392)
• Philippines
30 Jan 09
Once a month? Is it not affecting your hard disk? That's too often. For me, I always use system restore. I always format my pc when there are major viruses that can't kill my antivirus, maybe once a year. Happy mylotting!
@pardhu8 (390)
• India
30 Jan 09
As of now i'm not facing any problems.It's working fine.I just format only C Drive itself.Once in a year i'll do entire disk and rearrange the drives with different sizes.
@josephb (219)
• Malta
30 Jan 09
Well it's how much the problem is big or not if I can go on I won't format it but if it will not let me go on using my pc smoothly or atleast a bit smoothly I would give it a format
@lokiblitz (169)
• Philippines
30 Jan 09
I never tried formatting my pc before.When my pc is acting slow i just simply check it for viruses,repair registry errors and defrag the disk drives.Just simple maintenance.
• Indonesia
30 Jan 09
You are doing a method like me. Check for viruses, repair registry and defrag disk drive is a useful and simple way. Don't forget to update your antivirus :)
• Mauritius
30 Jan 09
When i find there is some problem such as my computer slowing down
• Indonesia
30 Jan 09
I think you needn't format your computer when your computer slowing down. You can use CCleaner software for clean your computer. This software can also fix your registry problem and it also can be used to unistall your software. There are many tools like CCleaner in the world, but I recommended this software :)
@gnmrin (17)
• Guyana
10 Feb 09
while there is a full of virus then i will check the antivirus update and clean my system. Even after cleaning the system is not working as properly i would like format at that time. some times operating systems files also currupting with virus. at that time i would like to repair the operating system files or format the system.
• India
30 Jan 09
I do not format hard disk very often, but when i feel like i get problems with my hard disk and i frequently get a blue screen error i do a format. I have always this fear or feeling that formatting hard disk too many times can spoil it.
@markmoney (2868)
• Philippines
30 Jan 09
As long as the problem is still minor, I keep on using it. but when the problem is major like it always crashed or my office applications are affected, then it's time to reformat. I think I reformat my PC for about 3 times a year. Happy myLotting!
@pengbubu (1011)
• China
30 Jan 09
I always install a new windows when my system look sluggish. For me once a month is just a little long, Haha, usually I format my C drive once two week. Mostly because of the virus. It seem it's easy to effect the virus and crash. I always download many film from the internet. Happy mylotting!
• Nepal
30 Jan 09
I woant format whole system but I format my C drive when I install new windows.
• India
30 Jan 09
no i use system restore. i know system formate gives you a full clean up and a good but aftre some time your system become slow. because again again formate syatem hard disk support is slowly slowly down. and after formate again install all the software , this is very boring for me. i usally formate my system in three to six months or other case when viruses are very powerful in my system. once i formate my system and after instalation all software i creat a restore ponit and after any problem i restore to than point. thats all. have a nice day friend.
@rayven00 (115)
• Philippines
30 Jan 09
when my computer is slow i just reformat it. viruses is one of the reason o reformat my computer. happy mylotting