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Endless Problems for Months - Time for Fresh Reinstall - Need Advice
Hello,
My computer is running Windows 10 Pro Education Insider Preview Build 17046.rs_prerelease.171118-1403 (whatever that means, lol).
Things have been worse ever since I had the bright idea to switch over to the Insider Preview channel, but overall I've had problems with Windows 10 on this machine from day one. Windows came factory installed by Dell on my system, which is a Latitude 5175 tablet computer (Intel Core m5-6Y57 CPU @1.10 GHz 1.51 GHz, 4 GB RAM).
I have chronic problems with the start menu and have read every Microsoft support forum entry under the sun and have tried all sorts of remedies for my chronic problems, with some successes here and there but at the end of the day still so many problems. I'd really like to use Cortana but through research it seems my current installation isn't quite right/is missing components. I've tried reinstalling with PowerShell and many other things but I think a fresh installation is my best option. My start menu won't open half the time. And I have all sorts of Windows processes that fail at startup.
My question(s): Is it a better idea to use the Windows "Fresh Start" reinstallation/recovery tool, or is it better to use the Dell recovery/reinstallation tool?
I imagine the benefit of using the Dell tool is that it should have a better chance of installing the proper drivers that are necessary and which are specific to this system and its hardware? However. I also imagine the Dell recovery system will come with more Dell bloatware than would come directly from the Microsoft Windows 10 recovery tool, is this true?
Also, are there any free applications that can capture and backup all installed softwares on my machine and then reinstall them in one pass once my fresh installation of Windows 10 is ready? Surely there must be some program that can make this happen.
Thank you very much for any guidance!
Richard
Last edited by richaardvark; 09 Jan 2018 at 06:34.