>Be careful when doing this. AFAIK, reinstalling from scratch will make you lose all security settings, addresses and other. Each NT server has a unique ID. This very important for the server's identification and it will be different each time you reinstall Win NT.
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>Vlad
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>>Hi All,
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>>I think I once read a thread under the VFOX forum where Rick Strahl of West Wind Technologies mentioned that he would re-install Windows NT like once or twice a year to get some kind of performance gain.
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>>I've been trying unsuccessfully to find another reference to the benefits of re-installing NT on my servers periodically, so I'll toss it out here and see if anyone bites...
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>>Is there any type of benefit of performance gain from periodically re-installing NT 4.0 on a Server? If there is a worthwhile benefit to this, can you just install 4.0 overtop of existing OS? OR do you have to essentially start from scratch (install OS, SP's, Apps, Services, etc.)?
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>>TIA

I'm really not sure that can improve performances on a server.

I think Rick have talk about a desktop computer where he install a lot of programs and/or shareware, change settings, etc. for testing purpose.

In that case a big clean up is the better solution to retreive perfomances.

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