This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

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I went off the official path and still landed on a Windows install I’d recommend.

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If Windows is your preferred operating system, consider these open-source apps. There are numerous open-source apps available for almost any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows.

There are few things we all dread more than the pesky little "Windows Update" notification that seemingly pops up at the most inconvenient of times. That said, keeping your device up to date with the ...

Windows has access to a vast selection of free, paid, open-source, and proprietary applications. While you can find many of these in the bundled Microsoft Store, others are scattered across the ...

Following months of signaling a shift toward unified update management, Microsoft is now testing a mechanism to decouple application updates from the Microsoft Store client. New code discovered in ...

9P7GGFL7DX57 is the ID for the Harden System Security app. 9PNG1JDDTGP8 is the ID for the AppControl Manager app. After running the above command, you will be prompted in a new window to enter the ...

Windows 11 is a solid operating system that offers some benefits over its predecessors. It features a fresh design, solid gaming performance, and offers much better multitasking over the prior version ...

It's official: Windows 10 is dead. Although it had a decent run as far as operating systems go (10 years; it came out in 2015) continued use is inadvisable. A system not receiving security updates ...