yeah, but a "format c:" does not, and if there's any drive in your system that may need a full wipe from time to time, it's your system drive.
But honestly, you haven't felt confusion and pain untill you've delt with this on a localized version of windows, then it's double the trouble, because all the folders on a localized version have translated names, but only half the developers out there use them, the other half will create new folders with the english names, so we get twice the folders to sift through..
Everything in my "doccuments and settings" folders is a giant incomprehensible mess! I have long since given up hope of ever finding anything in there, it just won't happen.. If i need to find a .cfg file in there somewhere, i'll have to use the windows search feature (and that is the only thing i ever use the search for, everything else i have organized).
It's just a cluster**** in there, and i don't even bother backing anything up from in there when i wipe and reinstall windows, it's easier to to start over than it is to deal with this giant mess they have made of my system.