The real shame is that the Forum would only allow me to give him one 'thumbs up' . . . he persevered more

Navy.
SSD arrived, is installed and Windows is now on it in accordance with you list.
It went very easily. I am very pleased. All my drivers are updated. All my major applications are loaded
I...

Thank you . Done .. or at least, I have done more of them .... silly to put any correct ones up there, methinks. Won't do it again..

NavyLCDR
Having followed your list, I have now completed point4. and have my own USB with a vanilla Windows10 on it.
When using the Media Creation Tool it warned me that if I was upgrading, I would...

Absoluley excellent.
I think that I now have all the advice that I need.
Many thanks.
Is there a way that I can donate something to this site in appreciation?

Cheers Navy. I just investigated how do do this on the Internet.
one question though.
The USB stick HP sent me is stamped with both 'HP'. And 'Microsoft'. so hopefully it should be 'good'...

When I run the HP USB reinstall stick .... HP include McAfee in their unstoppable sequence of events. They give me no option to bypass it .. unfortunately.

Hi Navy. Thnaks.
Just the sort of advice I was looking for.
Is the free version of Macrium Reflect the version I Need?
I will need to investigate how to do the dism thing in point 2.! though!
...

Thanks,
When I use the HP USB installation drive, it automatically puts in McAfee as a virus protection. Hopefully their USB drive will be able to withstand that.

Thanks Jimbo. I have put all my files and needed 'stuff' on an external drive .. so I should be OK there.
I really do want to have a completely clean PC to start off this time.
A completely...

Hi there.
For the last three months I have had Windows 10 problems, principally that I lost the ‘windows’ button and it’s activities, but also file saving problems.
I had purchased a new PC with...