It not a question of needing to, I do it more as a re-organising the computer thing. Sort of like moveing your furniture round in your house, or spring cleaning.
You dont spring clean because your house is dirty, you spring clean cos your house could be cleaner.
Its an opitunity to make sure that everything that needs to be backed up, is backed up. Everything that you didnt want to be there, (Spam, spyware virus etc) is removed. Things that you havent used/accesed ever can be moved to storage. Projects that you have put on hold and forgotten about can be re-looked at
Dont get me wrong, I didnt even start to do this under windows, I used to do it under workbench on my 1200. And I would say that even if the point of doing it is getting less and less, (that is the OS is more stabe, and I have massive HDs) its becomeing easyer and easyer to do, what with more programs putting there user data/save position into the "My Documents" folder.
Also, and here I think is the important thing, I dont just have the one computer. So while (say), this one is being cleaned I can use the other one, and vise versa. So as not really to have downtime
(Mind you, it did catch me out, when B&W1 put the creatures mind in the reg)
You dont spring clean because your house is dirty, you spring clean cos your house could be cleaner.
Its an opitunity to make sure that everything that needs to be backed up, is backed up. Everything that you didnt want to be there, (Spam, spyware virus etc) is removed. Things that you havent used/accesed ever can be moved to storage. Projects that you have put on hold and forgotten about can be re-looked at
Dont get me wrong, I didnt even start to do this under windows, I used to do it under workbench on my 1200. And I would say that even if the point of doing it is getting less and less, (that is the OS is more stabe, and I have massive HDs) its becomeing easyer and easyer to do, what with more programs putting there user data/save position into the "My Documents" folder.
Also, and here I think is the important thing, I dont just have the one computer. So while (say), this one is being cleaned I can use the other one, and vise versa. So as not really to have downtime
(Mind you, it did catch me out, when B&W1 put the creatures mind in the reg)