isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org wrote:

>"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in
>news:OuxljgWGHHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
>
>> Reinstalls once a year, why, what are you doing to your sys?
>>
>
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>1) I think it's recommended by many techs and

Only the incompetent ones.


>2) My registry becomes bloated after awhile, and I'm one of these people
>who are constantly questioning strange dll's and exe files.

Registry bloat cannot slow down your computer to any significant
extent. The worst case scenario is that the enlarged registry uses
more RAM thereby resulting in increased use of the paging file.

>
>It's amazing what even the most benign sites can do with their cookies and
>Javascript files. Do a regedit and go through your root and HKLM strings
>and tell me how many strings there are that you would question.

It would take literally days to do this, and to what avail?

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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