Reinstalling Windows every few months for FPS
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What it does
Wiping and reinstalling Windows on a schedule, on the theory that an install 'wears out' and quietly eats FPS.
The honest verdict
A genuinely rotted install — years of leftover services, startup hooks, and half-removed 'optimizers' — can measurably improve from a wipe, which is why the ritual has believers. But the reinstall isn't what helped; removing the rot was, and on a maintained PC there's nothing to remove. As a schedule, it costs you a weekend of reinstalling everything for frames that don't move. Compy's Check looks for the actual rot — leftover tweak debris, startup load — so you can see whether there's anything a wipe would even fix before you burn the weekend.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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