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?
>>
>
>
> 1) I think it's recommended by many techs and
> 2) My registry becomes bloated after awhile, and I'm one of these people
> who are constantly questioning strange dll's and exe files.
>
> 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.
>
I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I
uninstall a particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to
seek out all references to those particular files.

Every once in a while I defrag the registry.

I've not had the need to reinstall.

Also, if you "reinstall" from an image, you're taking all
the stuff you're complaining about with you to your new
installation - aren't you?

Louise