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How do YOU clean install ? Do you follow a plan ?
There is a little doubt a clean install is the best option for a fresh start... but all the work involved
Well the last time I did this I documented the steps (applicable to me of course) and found that it speeds the process up tremendously as you are following a definite plan and line of attack. All the latest versions of the programs needed are on a USB flash drive so that no going on line is needed. Note, the odd partition sizes are chosen so that a perfect 30Gb of 30Gb and 120Gb of 120Gb etc are displayed correctly in file explorer view of 'This PC'.
This is how I do it. Note all the backups made along the way. These ensure that should anything go amiss, I can roll back and correct the issue afresh without compromising the 'perfect install'.
Having a set out approach definitely pays dividends time wise... its worth trying imo.
Code:Windows W10 Spring Update Installation. 01/ Install on 20 gb partition. Do not connect to Wi-fi until desktop appears. Wait for display driver to be installed. Remove USB drive. 02/ Minimise brightness. 03/ Run update check. Turn OFF Delivery Optimisation. 04/ Turn off Bluetooth. 05/ Set partitions. Re-allocate DVD drive letter first. C: = 71780 mb D: = 30820 mb (Data) Y: = 123084 mb (AOMEI) Z: = 10340 mb (Recovery) 06/ Set single click option. 07/ Copy recovery files to newly created recovery partition. Remove drive. 08/ Install Quickset. 09/ Install Realtek Audio Driver. This is not self extracting and running. Run setup.exe from within program files. 10/ Install card reader driver. 11/ Set power plans. 12/ Set Intel graphics battery options. 13/ Set power plans. 14/ NETPLWIZ 15/ Restart. 16/ Install AOMEI and set VSS option to use AOMEI and NOT Windows own VSS. Pin tile to taskbar only. 17/ Restart. 18/ Make backup image. 19/ Apply .NET2/3 changes. Use DISM if this is non functional. 20/ Restart. 21/ Make backup image (differential). 22/ Apply dark theme (located under colours). 23/ Apply 125% scaling. 24/ Apply mouse pointer selection via Ease off Access centre. 25/ Apply registry font size settings. See details in reg folder and/or at end of this file. 26/ Apply registry file for clock seconds display. 27/ Open Media Player and turn off Auto Updating of content. Create start menu tile. 28/ Apply registry file for clock seconds display. 29/ Change Windows Update settings as required. Run Windows assessment tool (winsat). C:\Windows\system32>Winsat formal -restart clean 30/ Restart. 31/ Make backup image (differential). 32/ Install Ashampoo BS2018. License code xyz123abc. Create start menu tile. 33/ Install Audacity plus LAME and ffMPEG plugins. Set DPI scaling and create start meunu tile. 34/ Install Diptrace. Set DPI scaling for all four executables and create start meunu tile for launcher. 35/ Install Foobar and ABX comparator. Leave Foobar open while applying ABX. Create start menu tile. 36/ Install Gimp. Create start menu tile. 37/ Install Irfanview x64 version. Create start menu tile. 38/ Install LibreOffice. Create start menu tile and taskbar launcher. Turn OFF auto update checking. 39/ Install Movie Maker MM26. Change DPI scaling of executable and create start menu tile. 40/ Restart. 41/ Make backup image (differential). 42/ Install LTSpice XVII and create start menu tile and taskbar shortcut. 43/ Set LTSpice options. Create Temp folder as required on Data partition. 44/ Install PicKit2. Create start menu tile plus taskbar shortcut and alter DPI scaling from .exe file. 45/ Install MPLAB. Create start menu tile and alter DPI scaling (located in MPLAB > Core folder in x86 program files. Decline final driver options. 46/ Restart. 47/ Make backup image (New full backup). 48/ Tidy and arrange start menu and desktop. 49/ Set up news and MSN Money (already installed). Create tiles. 50/ Set up weather tile. 51/ Create start menu shortcuts for Notepad, Wordpad and Paint. 52/ Restart. 53/ Make backup image (Differential). 54/ Create Library shortcut and apply icon. Filepath is %WinDir%\explorer.exe /e,::{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5} 55/ Add calculator to taskbar. Already present by default on start menu tiles. 56/ Add character map to start menu. 57/ Organise task bar. 58/ Organise Start Menu and create name groups. 59/ Full disk clean including system file clean. 60/ Restart. 60/ Make backup image (differential). 61/ Install Adobe Reader DC. Obtain directly from web at time of installation. Uncheck all optional offers. 62/ Install Dropbox. Move folder to D partition. Disable start up. 63/ Make image backup (differential). 64/ Install Epson printer. Accept all options BUT DO NOT install firmware. 65/ Create start menu tile for Epson Scan. Set DPI scaling, copy and paste shortcuts file path location to ensure correct target. 66/ Restart. 67/ Make backup image (differential). 68/ Install 'MSN Translator'. Just type type Translator into search box to find. Add to Start Menu. 69/ Enable Libraries and add library title headers. 70/ Restart. 71/ Make backup image (differential). 72/ Full disk clean including system file. 73/ Restart. 74/ Make image backup. Note, start new backup. This is now virtually a finalised image minus user data. 75/ Add Chess Titans and Mahjong (Vista copies) to a new folder called MS Games. Locate this in Documents and not program files. Create tiles. 76/ Import all user files. 77/ Add LTSpice modelfile to root of C drive. 78/ Set up One Drive. 79/ Import Edge HTML file and set up Edge as required. 80/ Make final recovery image. Current Font Sizes: Font sizes. AU CU CFU/SCU/April 2018 update Title Bars 11 Bold 11 Bold 11 Bold Menus 9 Bold 11 Bold 11 Bold (this setting alter top line view such as File/Edit/View etc) Message Boxes 9 Bold 9 Bold 9 Bold Palette Title 9 Std 9 Std 9 Std Icons 12 Bold 14 Bold 13 Bold (this alters the file explorer view) Tooltips 12 Bold 12 Bold 12 Bold