First Major Update for Windows 10 Available
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First time I ran into a problem and made a big mistake was when I was dual booting Vista and Win7 preview.
Vista was on drive C and Win 7 on drive D. When Win 7 was officially released I formatted the C drive and did a clean install of Windows 7. Straight after that I deleted a system reserved from the D drive. Result was that my PC wouldn't boot.
Lesson I learned was that if a system reserved partition already exists then it won't get overwritten with a clean install and most importantly of all disconnect all the hard drives that you are not installing your OS on before a clean install.
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Speccy and CPUZ-ID were also removed on my computer.
I reinstalled Speccy, and it works, but still says it's removing it (again and again!).
If you go to the Notification about it, a page from Microsoft comes up saying Speccy is not compatible with the Windows Insiders release.
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A clean install from the iso setup.exe is not a 'bare metal' clean install; during installation it asks if you want to keep files, etc. or not, and it pins a list of your 3rd party programs to the desktop.
I didn't get any list of 3rd party programs.
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I didn't get any list of 3rd party programs.
Back when I first updated to Windows 10, I had to "Reset this PC" to get past a black stuck screen.
It removed all installed third party programs, and put a "Removed Apps" HTML file on the Desktop. The file had a list of all the programs and a link to a few of them to re-download.
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Speccy and CPUZ-ID were also removed on my computer.
I reinstalled Speccy, and it works, but still says it's removing it (again and again!).
If you go to the Notification about it, a page from Microsoft comes up saying Speccy is not compatible with the Windows Insiders release.
Which is pure horse-hockey (to quote Colonel Potter). MS and Piriform have not come to "agreement" on this product.
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Which is pure horse-hockey (to quote Colonel Potter). MS and Piriform have not come to "agreement" on this product.
Glad CCleaner works o.k.
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did you select - keep nothing ??
Yes. When Windows was installing I had to go through the whole setup procedure. At least now it shows my name instead of the first 5 letters of my email address.
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Which is pure horse-hockey (to quote Colonel Potter). MS and Piriform have not come to "agreement" on this product.
Is there some sort of dispute?
I don't really need either Speccy or CPUZ-ID, so I don't really care directly.
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And it's needed for something? Because I can't delete it :/
Yes you can.
Here is what I did...
I did this to get rid of windows.old, BT and WS...just change lines for directory you want from elevated CMD Prompt.
takeown /F C:\Windows.old\* /R /A
icacls C:\Windows.old\*.* /T /grant administrators:F
rmdir /S /Q C:\Windows.old\
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Now that would upset me....if it didn't after running it for years on windows.....versions....
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