[Saintly]

Originally posted by id10t
Format your drive and reinstall everything from scratch every 6 months to a year - windows tends to get "crufty" with normal long term use, and is measurably faster with a fresh install on the exact same machine.

I agree with this.. especially when on a home / games computer. what I do is get my PC set up with all the core programs and all available updates. then I make a ghost image of the drive to my data drive (makes a file of about 1.5 to 2Gb in size). then 6 to 12 months later when I want to refresh my PC I load the ghost image in about 10 mins. then I load any new updates and take a new ghost image for the future.