Just a little something that struck me today, when realizing I probably have to reinstall my laptop soon. I haven't done so in about 3 years by now. This HP Pavilion dv6 has been surprisingly solid, even though it's 6 years old now. But, the last few weeks have shown significant decrease in performance, especially when exiting programs and closing Windows. So I feel another reinstall is inevitable, sooner or later. The best part of those, I think, is getting rid of all those; "Just wanna try this game/program/app", that you didn't like, but that lingers around in your system, with unknown performance issues, and naturally all potential threats and hazards such as virus and malware. The downside is all them things you must remember to backup. Not only files, folders and bookmarks and but also settings and passwords, etc and it's so easy to miss out here and there, which makes me tend to skip the whole ordeal 
I wonder, how often do you reinstall your system? 
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My lappie is sooo slow now that I can hardy use it, at all. zBrush runs fine (oddly enough) and I can juggle models with 5 million polygons with ease... But Internet browsers are running like a tortoise in mud, and just opening folders, programs and closing programs causes the whole system to freeze or hang just about all the time. Took me about 45 sec to just open Paint for a screenshot, etc. So, I might be gone or a few days now, when backup up and reinstalling everything. Will update my Norton Internet Security as well as I suspect an infection 
