Reinstalling Windows 10 Pro

[Mister Fork]

It also includes a 20 minute breakfast stop ... and yes, with bacon and coffee.

[TequilaChaser]

Glad you got it all fixed up and working


Side note: I'd installed FoxIt PDF Reader and get rid of the Adobe PDF Reader...

People who play on Pogo have to have Java, I keep having to update Java on my Moms PC because of it....



TC

[Chalenge]

Followed your advice Chalenge - moved to another drive, deleted partition, installed fresh OS install, copied back over files.

Wait is weird yet nice is that Aces High runs right out of the install folder - no need to reinstall - only lost HOTAS keymappings but I say 'good riddance' to the Saitek Keymapper. 

Onto the Acer VR headset 

As frequently as Windows has been, and will be, updated makes this a worthwhile setup.

On another note: It could be that Windows 10 N is just a "mode" of Windows 10 Pro. Just today Mary Jo Foley posted about Windows 10 S being just that:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-switching-out-of-windows-10-s-mode-will-be-free-for-all/

[Chalenge]

Ok - from start to finish from blowing away the partition on the SSD to full reinstall of OS Win10Pro, to using my Microsoft account (which btw caches the OS key + settings and links it to your account), reinstalling Office 2013, downloading AH (even though the game works in the directory without a reinstall), downloading a couple of my fav games, it was just 2 hours. That blew me away on how fast it is. And that includes installing and setting up Windows Mixed Reality and SteamVR.

Before, loose a hard drive and do a reinstall, we're talking a weekend project and a couple week nights before it's 100%.  But my Gmail account caches my Chrome, MS caches my Win10Pro preferences and OS settings (all except my screensaver), and I don't have any local mail clients as I'm using Gmail and iCloud. I also didn't install JAVA. What games uses Java anyways? NONE. Only Adobe product I installed was Acrobat Reader - and that took 4 minutes.

God I love SSD's. 2 hours. Unreal.

It could have been even less. I'm just curious if you used the Location tab to move your libraries, or used the copy command, or how you did it?

[Mister Fork]

It could have been even less. I'm just curious if you used the Location tab to move your libraries, or used the copy command, or how you did it?

I blew away the partition, and did a fresh install.  Since most of the new games we play are back-ended in the cloud (game saves, settings, key mappings), none of mine lost save positions or anything.

I have two SSD's, one is for game installs, the other is the OS. I left the save drive alone, and blew away the OS install.  It was really a good idea because basically it was a 10 year old setup - from Windows 7 Ultimate that I installed in 2008, upgraded to Win10ProN (don't ask why I choose N - I thought I was being anti-establishment). 

Anyways, from the time I started, to the time I finished, it was just 2 hours including a 30 minute bacon, waffles, and coffee break. And the rest I just left my machine on to install the games I normally play. I also reinstalled Aces High to fix a VR headset issue (more on that later), and decided NOT to install any Java or Apple products or any other bloatware. So far, computer is really performing well - much better than before.

All I have installed is Aces High, Adobe Reader, Battlefield 1 & 4, Office 2013, and Webroot AV. That's it. Email is via gmail and icloud. No other bloatware. Machine hums now.

[Chalenge]

In that case you may never need to use the reset function. I have a lot more going on with my system, so the updates can really bring on problems, mostly I think because of the way Microsoft keeps changing their heading. I think moving the libraries to different drives really helps in maintaining speed, also, but if you don't that as a problem then why do it?

[100Coogn]

In that case you may never need to use the reset function. I have a lot more going on with my system, so the updates can really bring on problems, mostly I think because of the way Microsoft keeps changing their heading. I think moving the libraries to different drives really helps in maintaining speed, also, but if you don't that as a problem then why do it?

Moving the libraries to anther drive is the way to go.  The most important for me is the Document folder, because I have a lot of games that use that folder for the save-locations.
This way if I ever have to Reset or Reinstall Windows I don't lose any of that data.

Coogan

[Mister Fork]

I did that too Coog - move My Documents to my install drive.  When I reinstalled some of the games, the settings were all there.

[100Coogn]

I did that too Coog - move My Documents to my install drive.  When I reinstalled some of the games, the settings were all there.

Right on.   

Coogan

[Pudgie]

Interesting thread discussion going here.....................

Just typing to let all that may not know that the procedure that Chalenge\others posted to move the Windows 10 libraries to another drive\partition instead of residing on C:\ drive (default) using the Location tab works just fine in Win 10 Home as well as Win 10 Pro.

I have done this on my box as well (set up a WindowsLibraries folder on my D:\Pagefile drive & moved all my library files on C:\ drive to it using the Location tab) and I'm using Win 10 Home. Works just fine.

Just putting this out there for clarification purposes as this procedure works in more Win 10 versions than just Win 10 Pro (referencing to title of thread).........

Hope this helps out...............

 

[Chalenge]

I laughed a little about this. My C: drive is a 1TB SSD. My Documents folder is 1.5TB. My Pictures folder has a lot of sub folders with textures for modeling and animation and altogether comes in over 4TB. My Video folder that has many, many audio folders is approaching 10TB. Steam is another drive. Adobe on yet another. . . etc., etc.

Even if I could put everything on a single drive it would slow the boot process down and take up to 20 minutes just to settle out and be useful.