Reset Required?

A reinstall wouldn’t take long as you’d just install ten , and there isn’t that many updates. But if it ain’t broke.

I do like a periodic reinstall though, but I always do a clone as soon as it’s all up-to-date and my software is  Installed and also up-to-date.

That way I’m 6 months tome I just load the clone, and only need to update the 6montjs and make a fresh clone, always keeping 2 pervious clones . Just in case. It makes doing an install take 30 mins instead of a whole night or longer.

Though I broke my cycle when I went to 10 and haven’t made any clones as my old version of clonzilla no longer worked.

The next time o do an install I will be cloning it, and getting back to my old roitine . Also I keep all data saperate mostly in the cloud or sensitive stuff on a 2 x USB HDD for archive, and isn’t thumb drives for what I’m currently working on, so I don’t need to do backups , I can just wipe my machines and bi up and running quickly.

But with 10 I’ve not noticed any slowdown .

Whilst agreeing with some of the points made by other members, I still think that if you’re happy with the present behaviour of the PC you should think twice about a fresh install. Certainly if you’re doing a complete reinstall from scratch the OS won’t (or shouldn’t!) take long, but getting your applications reinstalled and all the settings and preferences back to your liking can be a real pain. If you take that route make sure you have backed up everything you may need – some items such as Microsoft Templates and Thunderbird settings are hidden away in AppData/Roaming and can easily get forgotten and if you use Picasa to view your photos make sure you have saved the hidden picasa.ini file in each folder as this holds any changes you have made to the view of your pics. Personally I’d just do a Disk Cleanup (in your C: drive properties) and give Ccleaner a whirl.