fresh install

I just did a fresh install of windows, all I installed was the network driver, graphics driver, and Microsoft security essentials. The windows update wasn't finding any updates for some reason. After I restarted my computer the only thing that shows is my background. There's no icons, explorer...

Ever since I got a new hard drive and installed a fresh copy of windows 8.1, I have been having issues with my pc's speed. Before both of my usable hard drives inconveniently broke within a week, my pc was just fine in terms of speed. I could run most games I had installed. Nowadays, after...

It was acting like virus, so I i did a fresh and killed (Totally overwrote) the mfr installation. I got the disc from craiglist for 15 dollars. At least it removed all names and puffery from the operating system. It worked on two others so seems valid. Even gives key #. Q1: I do not have all...

Did a clean install from recovery disks to new drive. Seems to be ok, so first thing I tried to do is run Windows Update, but it just runs and runs and runs. Probably 5 hours now. Taskmgr shows svchost running an almost constant 25%, pretty much nothing else using any CPU. Is it normal for...

My buddy built me a PC a while ago with Windows 7 at the time. I have Windows 10 I just don't know if it's worth to update or even how to do it? I have a SSD that has Win7 on it and a HDD as well. If you recommend that I do upgrade, how do I do it, I'm not familiar with this. Also, should I do...

I want to do a fresh install next year and don't want to have to do the Windows 10 anniversary update again and the other ones.

Okay so today I was having some major issues with windows 10, apps were taking forever to load and i did a defrag and after some more issues i decided to reinstall windows. But for some reason i keep on getting a error 0xC004C003. So windows 10 as of now is unactivated, I had a valid key and I...

After a hard disk failure and a fresh installation of Windows 7 the Pivot Pro program fails to install. After installing the program and rebooting Windows 7 as required by the program I get the message "Your configuration has changed. Please re-install Pivot software." Removing the program files...

Hi all... I updated my HP Pavilion G6 notebook to W10 a few weeks ago, no problems. I`ve now made a W10 USB so I can do a fresh install of W10 and set it up how I`d like but the laptop won`t boot from the USB. I`ve set it to boot from the USB in the bios but I`m not getting any boot options...

I'm having the exact same issue as original poster. Cold boot and on desktop. Usually 5-10 min in I'll lockup and freeze. Requires restart. From then on I have no more issues the rest of the day or night, even when playing high demand games. If I shut down or sleep it's hit or miss if it will...

I have a Toshiba Satellite E45DW-C4210 (came preinstalled with Windows 10 so no disc obviously) & it came with some bloatware from Toshiba. I have no idea what other junk is on this machine. How can I do a "fresh" wipe or whatever you want to call it so only Windows 10 is on the laptop, I don't...

Hi, I have done a fresh Windows 10 install on my pc, because I was not receiving insider builds on my old install. I'm running Enterprise version and was on the last 1511 verison before the fresh install. Now I installed Windows 10240 RTM version on my pc and registered to get insider build...

I'm a new member of the forums but was really impressed with the quality of assistance provided in troubleshooting BSODs. I've been getting a number of BSODs daily over the last few weeks and although I've attempted to troubleshoot the issues including a fresh install of Windows 10 I'm still...

Hi, My Dell laptop has been misbehaving for a while so I decided the only solution was to do a fresh install. Normally I would nuke it, download the iso from Microsoft and re-install. It seems however that MS have pulled the plug on the downloads for OEM windows 7, but I do still have my...

I'm in the windows Insider program and have been running Windows 10 in a virtual machine. The last upgrade to 10565 has problems. Start and Search don't work. I did not upgrade from Windows 7 or 8. Can I just create a new VM and do a fresh install? If so what about the key do I skip that at the...

I upgraded to Windows 10 and everything was fine until I started getting blue screens like mad after months of it being perfect. It turned out a stick of RAM went bad but I didn't figure that out until after I formatted and tried to install Windows 10 fresh. Anyway, during installation it...

Hey guys I was wondering if I was the only one to encounter this issue where if you was to change a games resolution it would bug windows out. So when you exited the game you would not see the task bar any more, in addition to this the game might also just go and produce a black screen and in...

Hi Guys, First I have this issue: The program ShellExperienceHost.exe version 10.0.10240.16401 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel. Process ID: fb8...

Well I'm 3 days into my Win 10 experience. There are some cool things but nothing that would make me run out and pay actual money for the upgrade. I'm sure it's just because it's an early release but everything seems slower in Win 10 and this is from upgrade on a fresh install of Win 7 less than...

im just curious if it asks for a key or not :P