Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months

On Mar 31, 2025 at 2:23:39 PM EDT, "rbowman" <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/heres-why-you-should-
reinstall-windows-11-every-two-months-no-im-not-kidding
 
He's gotta be kidding...

This guy sounds like a major idiot. 

If you need to reinstall every 2 months, you are doing incredibly stupid shit.
 

I just recently upgraded a few Windows 8.1 era (2013 or so) tablets to Windows
10. They still ran 8.1 fine, but it was getting hard to find modern browsers
for 8.1.  Windows 10 runs fine on them.

On my big, 17(?) year old desktop tower (it came with Vista!), I have Windows
7, 8.1 and 10. All still run fine. Never re-installed any of them over the
years. I have loads of drive space in that box, so 7 and 8.1 are still there.
 It helped that I had an MSDN account where I worked. At one point I had
Windows Server (2016 I think) and SQL Server installed on it too.

I did clone Win 10 to a SSD, but that is it. I have put in a bigger power
supply, added RAM, a newer video card and several hard drives over the years.
 It is basically a server at this point. But it was used very heavily during
the Windows 7 and 8.1 years.

So lots of hardware changes, but many versions of Windows were never a
problem.  Except Vista was a pig and was quickly replaced with 7. 

This guy is so far off in left field, he is WAY off the "tech radar".