=20 After having a PC for four years or more, I would be tempted to re-install everything again anyway;=20 it's amazing how much "rubbish" you can collect over this amount of time.=20 (I *almost* look forward to a hard disk failure as a way to enforce a tidy-up these days)=20 -Jim BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }=20 On Wed 30/01/13 7:32 AM , Luis Moreira luis.moreira1575@googlemail.com sent: Hi Guys, My main PC at home, which is about four years old and running windows 7, is slowly developing faults as time goes by and I think it is time to get a new motherboard for it. My question is, if I fit a new mother board with probably new processor and memory do I have to do a clean installation of windows7. I really don't want to do that... Thanks. Best Regards Luis --=20 http://www.piclist.com [1] PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist [2] Links: ------ [1] http://www.piclist.com [2] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .