Final results from clean XP install

[Don]

Well, when I put this new 780i mb in on Friday, and found myself staring at
having to do a format and clean install of XP Pro, I must say I was pretty
much cussing at just about everything, I was not a happy camper. First, I
had not really prepared myself to do a format and clean install, I mean the
780i is basically the same chipset of the 680i, and I had changed
motherboards much different, and gotten by with doing a repair install of XP
Pro, keeping all my programs intact.

So I pretty much spent all day Friday, and all day Saturday , after the
format and clean install, of getting all my programs, etc back on that I
had. I blew away some stuff I really no longer used, figured that was as
good a time as any. Got rid of my FSX directory, and installed FSX and
Acceleration, clean. Luckily I was able to retrieve my important data for
it, liked saved flights, logbook, so didn't really lose any of that. I was
lucky, since I had not really prepared for this, that I back up all my
partitions to image files, on a regular basis.

I gotta say, I was pleasantly suprised, at the performance I gained in FSX
from doing this, with it set pretty much on the same level of detail, that I
had it at before the format. Whether it was from the clean install of XP
Pro, or the clean install of FSX, or a combination of the two, I don't know
( I suspect the latter ), but wow did I gain some.

So looking back, I am kind of glad I found myself having to format and
install XP Pro, it had been a while since I had done that, and I guess even
with Windows XP, a clean install every now and then can be a good thing,
gets rid of the cobwebs I guess.

Just relating my experience, in the fwiw category. Formatting and clean
installing can be a royal pitb, but certainly can have it's rewards in the
end.

--
Don

[Vic Baron]

Glad it worked out, Don. There have been several threads on the flight
forums that came to the same conclusion. A clean install of FSX/SP1/SP2 does
wonders for the sim.

Vic

"Don" <burn...@clotheshotmail.com> wrote in message
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[SORSRR]

Like the saying goes...No pain, no gain! Glad you survived it.

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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:13:09 -0600, "Don"
<burn...@clotheshotmail.com> wrote:

>Well, when I put this new 780i mb in on Friday, and found myself staring at
>having to do a format and clean install of XP Pro, I must say I was pretty
>much cussing at just about everything, I was not a happy camper. First, I
>had not really prepared myself to do a format and clean install, I mean the
>780i is basically the same chipset of the 680i, and I had changed
>motherboards much different, and gotten by with doing a repair install of XP
>Pro, keeping all my programs intact.
>

SNIP!