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OEM Windows is broken. Should I repair or wipe disk and start again?
Yesterday I took delivery of a Lenovo Yoga 710. It got off to an immediate bad start when it got stuck as I setting up my user account and I had to force a reboot. Then I found that file sharing was broken due to permission problems even though I spent hours and hours posting on and trawling through forums and double and triple checking my settings. And then the Start menu and search tool stopped working on all accounts on the machine and the Start button troubleshooter has been of no help. What's more, when I tried to roll back to a restore point, this failed with an "unspecified error".
Should I give up and simple erase the disk and start again with a fresh install of Windows, or should I persevere with trying to turn this mess into a workable operating system? I know that if I wipe the disk I will lose the software that came bundled, the most interesting of which was a limited subscription to Office 365, but are there other things such as drivers which will cause me more serious headaches?