With Win98 I had reinstalled annually.  With Win2000, about every two
years - the culprits are device drivers and MS-Office and it's hooks into
the OS.  With WinXP, I haven't reinstalled yet, but it doesn't get used as
much as Win2000.

Mike Ober.

"Kyle" <RaVeNlI666@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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how many of you ppl have to reformat and reinstall ur os every 3 months or
so....? I have used the gui verson of seti on a win 200 and xp pro and it
seems like every 3 monthes or so sys files start to disapear and things go
funkey. i have a firewall and anti-virous, both uptodate. anyone else

suffer

from this?