>>Do you think Win ME should be an upgrade or a complete wipe and install?
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>I think ANY OS change should be a complete wipe and install. One of the best short, medium, and long-term time investments you can make.
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>Some companies wipe all drives every 6 months to a year and reinstall everything, as part of their planned maintenance.

They'd love you around here. Everytime they "update" our image (new version or SP), they re-image all our drives. Your old profile is lost along with all individual settings. Since they use the theory of lowest common denominator, we all end up with the settings in place for Smoe, the 80-yo who has never touched a computer. After about six months you end up back where you started, just in time to get the email that says "We'll be re-imaging your hard drives effective..."

I do agree that for developers who do a lot of installs, changes, etc. that this might be a benefit. I usually end up reformatting my dev boxes at least twice a year (more in VFP beta years - sometimes even when I didn't plan on it *g*). For the basic user though, it's over kill and inappropriate.

Just my .02 (.035 Canadian)