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Originally Posted by issybird
Every now and then, I've had to do a factory reset. No biggie and it's solved whatever I meant it to solve. But occasionally I see people advocate a factory reset as a tune-up, or akin to getting an oil change - just something that should be scheduled occasionally to keep things humming along.
So is this something I should be doing? I admit it, I hesitate. Partially because I'm of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school, but also because of the nuisance aspect of starting from scratch.
Should I suck it up and do it or let well enough alone?
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Leave it alone if you have no problems.
I've got some friends who seem to be stuck in 1996, which is the time when Windows 95 would crash every other minute after half a year of use (because of the "DLL hell").
They just can't believe that it's not neccesary any longer to reïnstall Windows every half a year. (I've had Windows installations running without any problems for up to 8 years now, even doing in-place upgrades from Vista to 7 to 10.)
"Back in the day" it was *REQUIRED* to re-install Windows every half a year (or year, if you were careful) because it would be messed up beyond repair. Nowadays, there's no such need if you use your computer normally.
I think that this urge to 'reset' that some people have is a hold-over from early computer days or something.
So if it can be done with an operating system, an e-reader can do it for sure. I have never factory resetted my Kindle PW1, as far as I can tell, and it's now more than three years old.