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Periodic Reformatting and Maintenance
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1023886" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Along with the above, I'd say experiment all you want. The only time I've done a fresh install is after a new OS and that's just due to my preference. I keep over a hundred additional apps installed, and during the first couple of years with my Mac probably installed 400-500 others that were consequently removed. This has never caused the issues we're all familiar with in Windows that requires a clean install just to get your system back up to speed again. As an ex hard-core gamer, my Win rigs typically saw a clean install every 6 months.</p><p></p><p>My wife's Mac is now on the 3rd OS just doing upgrades to each one, never a clean install. She visits and installs stuff from a lot of (what I call) junk sites. On her Win machines she'd have so much malware and spyware bogging down the system that a clean install about once a year was easier than trying to clean it any longer. This issue has also disappeared.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1023886, member: 24160"] Along with the above, I'd say experiment all you want. The only time I've done a fresh install is after a new OS and that's just due to my preference. I keep over a hundred additional apps installed, and during the first couple of years with my Mac probably installed 400-500 others that were consequently removed. This has never caused the issues we're all familiar with in Windows that requires a clean install just to get your system back up to speed again. As an ex hard-core gamer, my Win rigs typically saw a clean install every 6 months. My wife's Mac is now on the 3rd OS just doing upgrades to each one, never a clean install. She visits and installs stuff from a lot of (what I call) junk sites. On her Win machines she'd have so much malware and spyware bogging down the system that a clean install about once a year was easier than trying to clean it any longer. This issue has also disappeared. [/QUOTE]
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