Vista - How often do you re-install Vista?

I normally re-install 3-4 weeks because of constant tweaking, (Brink)..Lol jk
But I re-install because I like to keep the performance, when I re-install I do have to set about 4-5 hours to get up and running again, after backups, drivers, and other stuff.

I think the longest I've kept an installation was about 3 months.

I'm tempted to call child services on you for abuse to your OS. I've never reinstalled my tower or my laptop (the wife's I have). They both boot in 20 or so seconds from post just like the day I bought them.

LOL! Go for it, this installation is 3 days old. NO JOKE, went from 7 back to Vista lol, I'll try to keep this one for as long as I can.

In all fairness, when I was running XP I was a monthly reinstaller because I was stubborn and didn't believe in restore and I was a tweaker. I've since learned I was an idiot.

I was exactly like that, I think I can safely say: as my boss told me - "I'm done with all the tweaking, messing, and getting dirty stuff. Right now I just want it to WORK."

Which is very true.

Vista... Hmm, Beta... was almost weekly reinstall; RTM.. less than a month and kept using XP instead; SP1 for testing, a week or so and was removed; SP2, maybe a month and was removed to keep using XP. (multi boots FTW!)

Windows7... haven't reinstalled it yet.

I also have some old computer with XP, was reinstalled on SP2 and SP3 just because I like to do "fresh" SP installations. But has always been working perfectly.

If you want to mess up the OS completely, consider Virtual Machines. I have a Virtual Machine with Windows 98 since... 2 years ago or so, still working fine. XD

I got 7 running through VMWare. I've been trying to get OS X to run through it just for experimental purposes but no luck. Damn disc will boot my computer but hangs on the first screen in vmware.

Vista Ultimate never.
[OR Win 3.1 , Win 95 , Win 98 or XP Pro. Can't imagine why it would ever be necessary.]

I really only re-install Vista when I need to reorganize all my OS'es and partitions.

All the different Seven builds is a different story

My XP, once in a year, I've actually kept it through 2 service packs. But before that on my old rig probably 10 times over due to tweaking. Vista, reinstalled once, went straight to sp2. Only had to reinstall because lets face it. You can never install once and be satisfied with it. It has to be perfect so the second time around should do it. I'm fairly happy with mine right now.