At 02:20 PM 8/21/2008 -0400, Rick Schummer wrote: > >> With winders it was a reformat and reinstall every month or so :-(<< > >What?!? Are you serious or exaggerating Pete? > >I have six PCs running Windows XP, three used by non-professionals >including kids who load all kinds >of crap on them. I have several more virtual machines with XP Pro. I have >never once "freeman'd" ...
Since we're sharing experiences.... I'm helping with the computers at a school. They've got around 40 of 'em. During the past year we had to wipe all of them at one time or another (well, I think there were 4 or 5 that made it through). Some of them were wiped more than once. They were pretty much running XP (hmmm.... I think the 4 or so that didn't get wiped had Win 2000 on them - I need to check that). MS Exchange crapped out every couple months too. At a client site, where there are about 300 workstations (win 2000 and XP), wiping is a fairly common practice too. I don't have the stats on it, but just about every user I know down there has had their computer wiped at least once in the past 3 years. So I haven't seen the once-per-month scenario. Of the 2 XP machines I have I've wiped one of them once and another of them twice in the past 3 or so years (maybe that's why they're not performing very well at the moment.... hmm....). It certainly is a huge pain to wipe 'em. -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
