yes its that time of the month again,XP has decided it wants a fresh go so im doing the intelligent thing and installing a second drive for OS only as im p**s sick of reinstalling a million appz and toys every time.does anyone know a method that stops this constant pain or am i just asking the impossible?i've tried defragging,registry defragging, disk cleanups etc all to no avail.

GODDAM YOU XP!!!!

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The impossible. Get a USB drive and ghost a good working copy of your OS drive with the apps you really need. Then when you kill by installing apps you shouldn't/don't really need do a re-fresh. Only takes about 1-3 hours for a 60-100gb drive.

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Have you tried ghosting a new image? You can ghost an image across the wire to a server or another machine that has enough disk space to contain the image. The ghostcast software only has to be running when you are ghosting the original image and then anytime you want to re-image your machine.

This method saves a lot of time and a typical XP installation takes only about 15 minutes.

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am considerin that after get this install sorted but need somewhere that will host it and not remove it if i dont use it for a while

USB HDD are so cheap these days.

or switch to "dark side"

yeah but even if i do this and put my progz on secondary hdd and OS on its own,when i reinstall windows its add/remove programs section doesn't recognise the stuff installed on second drive as there,will that effect its ability to us em?can get usb hdd from work for pennies which im increasingly lookin at as a good thing with amount of krap im accumulating.

Use you primary HD for your OS and known programs. Install all other programs on the usb HD, and also have a ghost copy of your OS on it....That way you try to keep your primary HD clean...

well thats PART of it done anyway.i forgot how many mobile,mp3 player and other device drivers are on my rig lol.and also quite a few of the setup files for my appz so its been a treasure hunt.

Get a Mac ? Just saying

MAC, Na its like being in jail..

"We are all just prisoners here , of our own device."

Good luck