how many time you format your computer in an year

i will suggest u that you should use windows 7... coming to ur ? i used to format my pc every month because of viruses.... now i found windows 7 and a nice antivirus which is protecting my computer completely... and i found no need to format my pc... its been 4 months now.. my pc and laptop both are running good....

If you make optimizations, cleanings and have a good protection for virus, you don't need to format or reinstall the OS so often, I have my PC with the same OS for almost three years now without problems...

i try not to format it. formatting the disk quite often slows it down. you should avoid it unless you have to do it

I have only formatted my drive only once and only during it's first install. I don't need to format my drive that often because I have my pc installed with Deep Freeze so I don't really bothers a virus comes to my pc because it doesn't stay anyway since it will be remove automatically. Because Deep Freeze will just revert back where it was freezed. And if I want to install something on it I just unfreeze it and install new software and I make sure i'm not connected to internet or my source installation files is clean and after that I just freeze it again. So my PC is always on top shape all the time except if there is hardware failure in which doesn't happen often.

I have format my computer many times in a year.. and the number of formatting i don't know.. because when i think my computer speed is getting slow and attacked by virus.. then i format my system.. i think if you format your computer 2-3 times in a month.. then it is not good for computer..because it effected on hard disk.. have a nice day and keep mylotting always...

I think You can format the pc once in a month. I usually do it once a month you must keep the copies of your software in other drives so that you can format c with comfort.

When I had my vista laptop, I ended up reformatting it after only 2 months as I ran into problems with it. Once I reformatted, it worked fine. Now that I have a Windows 7 computer, I am nto having any problems whatsoever. I think it is the best operating system that microsoft has ever come up with. Vista, was nothing but problems, and xp, well, I didn't really have to many problems, but it still isn't as good as windows 7. My desktop has xp on it and since I don't use it for surfing and doing the sites I am a member of then, I will just leave it alone and not reformat it or do anything else like upgrading. I am certainly glad that I purchased this laptop, as it runs very smoothly, and it seems to run faster than any of the other operating systems I have used. Take care, and have a very good day.

Last time i formatted my pc was over a year and a half ago and because it was a new machine. i'm still using vista (dont have the patience to switch to 7) and its a very good os though a bit heavy. Before that on my other machine i am using xp and the last time i formatted it was 5/6 years ago. You probably could just have deleted the infected files instead of formatting the hdd. I also have my doubts that no antivirus could have resolved the problem.