I haven't had to reinstall Windows since 2011. Currently on the latest Windows 11.

>but you had to install Windows 11 to upgrade from Windows 7 which was the latest OS in 2011!
I just updated, still kept all the programs and data and registry
>But your hard drive must have been replaced!
Ghosted it over to the new PC. Installing a new hard drive was just a speed boost, not a reinstall
>how can you even tell that your windows install is that old?
Oldest directories in %localappdata% are from 2011.
>your Windows install must be super slow!
Nope, checking the task manager shows nothing using up all the resources. CPU is less than a few percentage usage with a few VMs open
>your system must be completely buggy and unstable
Nope, everything is running fine. I even run system file checks and nothing is found of issue.

>>105673454 (OP)
>Ghosted it over to the new PC
Meant new drive. I bet this windows install has been on 5 drives minimum.

windows doesnt get "bloated". it gets corrupted overtime. new versions of windows will fix the corruption through windows update. if you dont trust windows update, your iso has a feature called "in-place upgrade". google it.

>>105673454 (OP)
>no muh system is fine
literal malware on picrel

>>105673454 (OP)
>Ghosted it over to the new PC
Device manager generally hates this and struggles to use new drivers.

>>105673454 (OP)
we don't care

>>105673618
Then why does it work every single time I do it?

>>105673576
And what specific symptom should I be experiencing if my PC wasn't fine? Everything runs fine.

>>105673914
Working and being stable aren't the same. When I build a sysprep image, I always make it driver-agnostic for this reason. At a minimum, you're carrying driver store bloat from past installations, but more likely you have a phantom device or the wrong driver for a new device that has the same vendor id.

>>105674085
Yeah, I'm not seeing any of that in my drives list in device manager and the Disks & Volumes settings.