My last reinstall was end of 2011
I don't want to reinstall. Therefore I have a working backup.
In 2011 i reinstalled with Windows 7 x64, on an i7-2500k@4.8 GHz. It took all 8.0, 8.1, Win10 1511 and so on upgrades. Including changing to i7-4960x , Ryzen 7 2700x and now Ryzen 9 3900x - including mainboard swapping except for the last upgrade, several GFX cards from AMD and NVidia. Only with minor problems (Battleye was the last for 1903). And a "remove all drivers older than 2017 and not from Microsoft" run using Process Hacker last February - killing old, but still loaded, drivers from 2012. That driver cleanup was only necessary due to a specific Hyper-V problem with one specific virtual machine running with one specific OS and CPU configuration...
Runs solid, with heavy load jobs running over several days, sometimes weeks. I don't want to reinstall, I have WAY too much installed and working without problems.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
