[hydrid]

Well, I found out that upon reinstalling photoshop [while mourning over lost images] that PS is now *FASTER*

Whoaaaah!

[Ben Barker]

Back when I made maps, I was making this bomb ass CTF map, called Nocturnal. I spent weeks on just the base. It was incredible. Walkways and pipes twisted around like industrial spaghetti, low r_speeds, nice flow.

Then my friend says,"Hey, you should try Linux! Linux is awesome! Let me just resize your partition and blah de blah blah blah!"

That was a big mistake. I lost my precious map, and everything else. Plus Linux sucked ass. Yeah, the GIMP... pshh.

[Happy_Man]

Well, its sort of like defragging...helps clean everything.

Formatting is just an obvious way to speed up things a bit, especially when you're as cluttered as I am.
The only bad thing is, even if you spend an hour of backing up shit, after you format you always remember THEN something ELSE you forgot.
So, I try to format as little as possible, but I defrag and scandisk on a weekly basis

[time_101]

I've found that win98 needs a reformat about once a year depending on how much you've been installing, moving, deleting, etc... After a while, defragging only goes so far before a format c: is needed (damn that system registry)

it's easiest all around to repartition so that windows, and only windows goes on c: (about 1.5-2 GB's) and everything else can be put onto another partition -- helps if windows gets corrupted and when it comes time to reformat.

And actually, the GIMP is quite powerful if you know how to use it right ;-) and Linux does indeed rock, just takes a bit of time to get used to it