![]() Note - when buying the machine in the first place you might be able to get the store to toss in a free W10 retail - stores are looking to sell stuff these days so it's always worth asking - the worst that can happen is they say no.īTW if you have an old (retail) version of W8 / W8.1 or W7 the update STILL works !! so just download the media creation tool and install a FREE version of W10. IMAGE rather than CLONE the HDD.Ģ) now WIPE the machine's HDD and re-install Windows from scratch - OK it means usually having to get a new Retail W10 licence but IMO the extra cost is worthwhile as "de-bloating" OEM machines often isn't as easy as it should be - especially if there's some security "trialware" installed -often rubbish like Macaffee is included and it's a real dog to remove totally. ![]() That way you can restore the entire machine EXACTLY back to the "Factory" state if for any reason you need to return it. ![]() Use something like Free Macrium from a bootable USB and save the image to an external device. My recommendation for any "Bought" (especially laptops) computer with all the standard bloatware in it is :ġ) Immediately - even before doing the initial setup - is to BACK UP the HDD entirely - including any "hidden recovery partition". ![]()
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