"You want to create a backup image file of your boot drive and store it to your external USB drive, so select the "image" option."

How does this differ from the image created through back-up and...

Between One Drive, restore point in system restore, backup to ext. hard drive and now Macrium, I feel I am over backed up. Over the top? BTW, Macrium is extremely slow backing. I'm glad I can...

OK, I installed free Macrium reflect 7. Should I clone or image the disc?

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I did Control Panel> Back-up & Restore(W7)> Create System image > to external hard drive (disk).. It took an hour? .

I made a back-up to external disk and I am not sure I would know how to use it. Too many file parts. But it is comforting to know if necessary, I can just do it again...Recovery> Reset> keep files...

I did not lose any installed apps except web WhatsApp which requires syncing with my phone's WhatsApp
I had to re-add mail accounts in Outlook. Many updates were installed automatically....

OMG...this tutorial gave me a headache. I ended up doing it the simpler way: Recovery> Restart and keep files> some tweaking after W10 installation. Now I am back to factory setting without losing...

Next step? "3. If ok, run an in-place upgrade repair install". How?

scan did not find any problem.

Portable version meaning free trial?

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I have run two chkdsk scans from cmd prompt and because I have no event viewer, I do not know the results.

I have run two chkdsk scans but I cannot view the result because event viewer is missing (or corrupt)

I have a hunch many more files or apps are missing since I went back to W10. First, (1) event viewer. Apparently it has to be re-installed. Second, (2) Powershell. No clue what's wrong. It just...

After downgrading back to W10, Event Viewer is no longer viewable. Gone. How do I restore it?

After a few days with W11, I decided I want back to W10. Will I be able to upgrade again to W11 maybe next year when W11 is no longer beta-like?

I don/t know the diff. I installed it from online "download now" from Microsoft.
I downloaded it yesterday. It was easy. But maybe I will keep it temporarily. It is growing on me, actually.

I...

I just installed W11 and I do not like it. How do I get back to W10?