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Do I REALLY need a fresh W10 install after to change mobo and CPU?
A couple months before the end of the year I have moved from W7 to W10 on my old i5-3330 PC. Then it happened that in the week between Christmas and New Year my mobo burned out causing me to stay without computer along all the period. So after the holidays I bought new mobo and took the opportunity to upgrade my CPU to a i5-10400, then I got also new memory sticks and new power supply. All the rest I reused. Well I am just contextualizing.
The fact is that I did NOT reinstall Windows. Instead I just plugged in my SSD (an almost new 240GB Kingston), left Windows detect all the changes and make the adjustments by itself. In the device manager it doesn't show up any conflict or problem but I have noticed that my PC has taking a little more time than I think it should to start applications. As soon I started using the new computer it seemed to load things too much faster than now. Some times it even "refuses" to start them... I click onto the taskbar icon, it momentarily flashes the "wait icon" but nothing happens, then I have to click it again (some times even a third time). It doesn't happen very often but it's usual with FortiClient VPN.
I have heard a couple times that I shouldn't have "recycled" my W10 previous install and that I should in fact to make a full fresh install. I don't know how much this is true or BS. Also I don't know if I really trust on this information because if this was true the computer would be crappy since the beginning instead to degrade the performance overtime so things doesn't SEEM to be related here. But really not sure. I confess that I am not in the mood to make a whole fresh install (lots and lots of apps and tweaks) unless it be absolutely guaranteed that the recycling of my previous install is the root of the issues. Computer is not BAD at all but I kind of smell a rat.
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