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Why not see how many hours are on the hard drive via SMART parameters? Will give you an idea of how much usage the device really has.
Why not see how many hours are on the hard drive via SMART parameters? Will give you an idea of how much usage the device really has.
In BIOS:
Born on date: 3/18/2017 - the day I took it out of the box.
Factory Installed OS: Win10
How: If you take a brand new system that had 1607 on it from new, then click 'Update now' here...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10
...it will run the upgrade assistant to reinstall the same version, making a windows.old in the process.
Why: who knows, but it's not really 'brand new' any more - it would be better described as 'refurbished'.
I would just make sure it`s fully updated and then delete the windows.old folder.
Use Disk Cleanup as Admin and click Clean up system files.
Think he's been thru all that.
Why would a new Laptop have an upgraded version of Windows 10?
I NEVER buy ANY Computers, Drives, etc. from Amazon. Most listed as "NEW", sold by third party seller are almost all used, old or refurbished "junk". Just read the REVIEWS of the product, look at the one star reviews. Some seller had the guts to sell a "used" 500 GB HDD with a label slapped on it reading 4 TB. Also, beware of China Clones.
OK, some info.
I checked out the HP Forum and there are a LOT of questions about that windows.old folder.
So I think this is an HP "thing".
Sage advice from HP: If you are happy with Windows 10, delete the folder.
Thanks.
My pure speculation:
I know that PC manufacturers use a disk image to batch load hard drives for any particular model. They are not going to pay some dude to sit and clean install the OS on each machine.
So I'm thinking they haven't gotten around (at HP) to updating their licensed image file. Probably still using the original version 15xx OS.
They set up the Upgrade Assistant software so the OS updates on first start (maybe?).
That might explain why "installing updates" took over an hour when I first started it up and went through the initial setup screens.
Feel free to tell me I'm nuts.