how often do you format your computer?

why would you guys bothers to format your hdd? virus or trojan only affect you when you trigger them. formatting the hdd is just *umb. get a damn AV SHIELD.

I would prefer to never format it. I hate backing up and reinstalling everything. I had a pc I hadn't formatted for 3 years, but finally had to a few months ago.

once in a 2 months

once every 4 months.....

WELL I ALWAYS TRY TO AVOID IT BUT I DO IN A VERY SENSITIVE CASE WHEN I KNOW NOW ONLY THIS CAN SOLVE A PROBLEM AND I SAVE MY DATA AND THEN FORMAT IT. I ALWAYS AVOID TO DO FORMATTING IF MY IMPORTANT DATA IN IT..

computer is virus attacted in format in our computer

I used to format even more regularly than you do, although I have changed to using a complete backup which I can overwrite the hard drive with. I now tend to recover the system about every 3 or 4 months, but I have the whole configuration set up so I can be up and running fully in about one and a half hours.

seldome! lol, dont want to damage my hard disk.

NO, I dont unless it is absolutely necessary. I am very picky about sites i visit and stuff i download. I dont keep junk on my computer. I keep my antivirus updated and stay away from spammers and adwares.

Never, but I think I have to schedule it

Formating computer, ohhhh... its a part of my life. I donn't why but i have to format my pc atleast 2 or 3 times in a month.

sorry...i haven't format my PC

yes i do format but not every month or every year i do when there will be problems of corrupt files or viruses then i will do or i dont do format

very often like 1 time a month cause windows kinda suks and makes my computer solwing down so i give it a boost i format :D

I dont format my hard drive unless it is absolutly necessary. as it is a lot of work to restore everything after the format. unless you have a restore CD for it, but why unless you corrupt your hard drive every 6 months that is rediculas. and un-necessary.

i don't need to format my hd. that's for amateurs or poor ppl.

i do it atleast once in a month as it gets affected by virus i do it often

whenever it is needed. in general it will be about 6 months.

Il do it once on a month...coz i wont use any antu virus software....

It depends what do you with your computer and it's condition. Usually i only format my computer when i having problem with it or it running really slow. If it doesnt have any major problem and it runs alright, i wont consider to do any format.. since it is painful to reinstall all the programs, and many other things you got on your computer. It could take weeks to get it back to the original state