Windows 10 fresh install taking forever free download. How to do a clean installation of Windows 10

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Apr 10,  · Windows 10 download is taking forever! once I had clicked on the windows icon at the bottom right part of my screen I pressed download now and it keeps saying starting download and its been doing that for a while now. Sep 12,  · I’m trying to create a Windows 10 bootable USB, to install windows 10 on my new PC, but the download is taking long hours. Is there a way to boost the download speed? Right now it’s downloading at an hour = 1% rate. ***Post moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category.***. An internet connection to download the tool and the Windows 10 image. Internet service provider fees may apply. Sufficient available data storage on the computer you are clean installing. Note that the download and image is over 3 GB. Check these things on the PC on which you want to clean install Windows
 
 

 

How to do a clean installation of Windows 10 | Windows Central

 

Click “Disk” to reveal disk usage. Perhaps the Dell drivers are causing the problem. Try using the computer without any Dell drivers and use the default Windows 10 drivers. If you must install Dell drivers only install the bare minimum, like the trackpad and wifi.

Avoid any display drivers. Another test you can do is open an explorer window and drag it randomly across your desktop in a shaking motion while looking at your CPU percentage.

If it spikes up when you do this then you are using software rendering from your CPU instead of hardware rendering from your videocard or integrated video.

No fooling around with the Dell. If that doesn’t help, what data mode is your HDD using? Maybe one is faulty. I had my 3ghz 8 core i7 extreme processor 64gb ram machine grind to being achingly slow a week or so ago and so I did a fresh install of windows with no improvement. I tried all the usual things like turning off indexing and display performance. I found under optional updates in windows that there was about 30 updates for my Intel CPU.

I installed them and now it is back to being like a new machine. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Start collaborating and sharing organizational knowledge.

Create a free Team Why Teams? Learn more about Teams. Asked 2 years ago. Modified 9 months ago. Viewed 2k times. Correct me if I’m wrong. Definitely a fresh install for me. New components may be on the cards too. While this is closer to a clean install I don’t consider it completely clean. I don’t lik my OS drives to be quick formatted. I have not seen that anybody mentioned it, but for all students that have access to free Microsoft software via Dreamspark, you can download Win10 iso, put it on the USB or DVD and install clean copy on your system, like usually You will get a new serial key, independent of your previous downloads Win 7 or 8.

During clean install, we would definitely format the previous partition then why we need to first upgrade previous version to Windows 10? It means during clean install you don’t need to give installation key and windows will be activated by itself. First sorry for my english-I’m from Poland. I done clean installation exactly like you, but I don’t downloaded Windows 10 twice, I only downloaded once and check prepare pendrive. Why did Edge disappear? Taskbar was unresponsive and I fixed that, but Edge disappeared?

It looks like it just uninstalled. I can find the shortcut but it doesn’t open anything. Please help! So what if I have windows XP. Can’t I install windows 10 by just purchasing windows 10 and installing it after a format of the hard drive. Does an upgrade write this over? Doesn’t matter in my case, yet wondering. The product key is tied to the motherboard bios right? So if I clean install Windows 10 on a new hard drive will it find the product key?

How to download “get windows 10 app”. I upgraded to Windows 10 via Windows update but I performed the reinstallation of windows 10 from the settings app and selecting the restore option, choosing to delete everything. Is this thing giving the same result of the formatting option said in the article?

Or maybe there is still some windows 8. Once i upgraded my network connection didn’t work perfectly I try to install the new versions of the drivers for my mother board but it didn’t work Officially I don have internet connection on Windows That’s easy enough BUT what are you all doing about booting off of a thumb drive on a surface pro?

Mine isn’t doing it. For devices with UEFI security you have to set up your usb stick in a different way. Have a look on Google. Even specific ones for the SP3. Sent from mobile. Im interested to know how to clean install win 10 on surface 3 and pro 3. I called ms and they didnt really provide a solution.

I’d like to of course have everything intact so when I do a reset it still works perfectly. Can I use my windows 7 product key, after upgrading and then doing a clean install for win 10?

As mentioned by several users above, you don’t need to enter the product key during the clean install after you have performed the upgrade first. Microsoft may have associated you’re hardware information as licensed. My test procedure: 1. Clean install a Windows 7 with OEM product key on my machine label 2.

Upgrade activated Win7 to Win10 using the Windows update method 3. Format already installed Win10 4. Perform a clean install of Windows 10 with USB 5. Do not enter skip any product key during the installation process 6. After the installation is completed, Windows 10 is already activated. I already did an upgrade of my Windows 8. So if I do a fresh install of Windows 10 in this machine, I need to use my key for Windows 8.

Can I also use this new cd key to make a fresh installation of Windows 10? You do not use your key from 8. After the upgrade, make sure that the upgraded W10 is activated. Once activated, you can then do a clean install of W10, and when asked for a key simply skip entering it. Once the clean install is completed, it should already be activated.

Because the activation server will recognize your hardware and activate it. Changed your hardware? I just did a factory reset and windows 10 upgrade was automatic. Works perfectly I dnt get update but tray r showing. My windows 10 desktop update is stuck on “preparing for installation.. It has been stuck there for over half an hour. Can anyone help me? What could be the issue?

I think during installation you can choose to download updates for the installer or not. Try ‘don’ t download updates’? What helped me was disabling the network adapter or turning off and on your wireless connection it should resolve the issue. This article is hugely confusing. So, you have to upgrade to windows 10 first via windows update, then download the ISO and select ‘ upgrade this pc’. That’s not what the article says.

Step 1: you need a win8 or win7 installation with a valid key Step2: you update through windows update to win Step 3: win 10 will then activate and your win10 activation will be linked to your hardware you can forget about your win7 or win8 key Step 4 optional : if you want to do a clean installation, you have to create a bootable usb stick or dvd so that you can start the installation during boot-time.

There you choose the ‘Custom’ installation, not the upgrade. Step 5: during installation, you will be asked for an activation key. You skip this. Step 6: after the installation, win10 will automatically activate because it knows you have a valid activation key for this hardware setup it got that from your upgrade before.

So if you never did an upgrade, you don’t have a win10 activation and you can only do a clean install of win10 if you’d buy a win10 activation key. Now, how do you fix that? If you’re unable to complete this step, look at “edit 5” down below 2. Now, run the command prompt as an administrator. Type in “wuauclt. EDIT: For those who still have issues, several users reported that setting their time forward to the First of August for example and then doing the above steps again helped them resolve the issue.

Just be cautious that you want to do an upgrade, not a clean install! If you do a clean install, Windows 10 will not activate.

You would need a new product key for that. Once you’ve completed the upgrade and checked that Windows is activated, you can do a clean reinstall if necessary. Now, ain’t that an accomplishment? EDIT 5: If you’re unable to delete the contents of the folder due to them being in use, try the following: 1. Run the command prompt as an administrator. Type in “net stop wuauserv”. You should see a message indicating that the Windows Update service has been stopped. Now, go back to the folder and now you should be able to delete all its contents.

Go back to the command prompt and this time, type in “net start wuauserv”. This time, the message will tell you the Windows Update service has been started.

Go back to step 2 in the original post. So, I in order to upgrade I have to install Windows 7 I got with my notebook, then upgrade to Windows 10, and then do a clean Windows 10 install again?

This is absurd. I know, right. I had to download Windows Just wow. That’s like all day work. I will probably wait until somebody figures this out. How To install it on a mac? I dont have a product key Help anybody???? I downloaded a build iso image about 3. I need to know if this upgrade method will yield a full version of windows Yes, you can use that for the upgrade.

It will install sole updates after that but in the end you’ll have a fully up-to-date win10 setup. A clean install would still be safer but one of my pc’s was set up like this and no issues with stability and performance so far.

I have a Toshiba Encore 8 inch tablet that came with Microsoft Office. Can you let me know how i can get Office backed up so I can install that after the clean install? I don’t know if there are others in the same boat but it will be very helpful. I wanted to do a clean install but once I upgraded, there was really no need for it. Works great. Though on a x resolution there are glitches with text and app sizes, but not terribly bad But which version should I choose if I have 32 bit os with x64 processor.

A pc with x64 processor can run both x86 or x64 windows. However best choice would be the x64 version. Always check if there are x64 drivers for your hardware printer, scanner, soundcard, graphics card How we get windows 10 key.

If you already have a win7 or win8 installation you don’t need a win10 key. If not, you can buy win10 and that will give you a win10 key. How do I get a windows 10 product key? Yes but I have windows But not activated How do I get a windows 10 product key??

Thanks for the reaction btw ;. Did a clean install. And for the first time EVER, I had a problem with bloody Windows not recognizing the property of the files in my external drives. Problem solved with a couple of lines on CommandPrompt and Ultimate Windows Tweaker 3 but still annoying. I have upgraded two machines PC and notebook for Windows 10 and both use the same product key.

I’m in the same situation. The thing is that you don’t need your W10 key for you pc anymore. Once your machine is activated on windows 10, is in the mcrosfot database and your windows will be activated automatclly after installation.

Just click “skip” button next time when asks you for product key when installing OS. Thanks tomaszporys! I want to upgrade to windows 10 from vista and I will download windows 10 from Microsoft insider. I wonder if I still need a product key to activate windows 10 and how do I get a product key?

You need to buy a product key since you want to perform a license upgrade. Just check on their website and you should easily find the product page where you can purchase one. However, since your computer is from Windows Vista, I recommend you to check the minimum requirements for Windows 10 since it I suppose that you are using a really old computer.

Hi, please help me. I had a Windows 8. Is that right? Or will I be in trouble in the future? I have already activated Windows! Thank you! In theory shouldn’t work. But if it works, enjoy:. Hm, but I am scared. Media Creation Tool Click the Accept button again.

Media Creation Tools settings Select the Nothing option. Nothing option Click the Next button. Media Creation Tool clean install Select your region setting after the installation on the first page of the out-of-the-box experience OOBE. Skip Cortana setup After you complete the steps, the setup will continue with the fresh installation of the operating system.

Using the local image, you can also use the recovery settings to start fresh with a clean copy of Windows If you want to upgrade to a newer version, you will need to use one of the other alternative methods. Erase options Click the Local reinstall option. Local reinstall option Optional Click the Change settings option. Change reset settings Configure the reinstallation options:. Select reset settings Click the Next button.

Windows 10 clean install with Local reinstall option Select your region setting after the installation on the first page of the out-of-the-box experience OOBE. If the computer uses an Ethernet connection, it will connect to the network automatically. Skip Cortana setup Once you complete the steps, a clean installation will be performed using the local image.

If this is a branded computer, the setup will restore all the original settings previously available with the device. This means manufacturer-specific settings, drivers, applications, and tools. However, the difference is that when you select this option, the setup will download a fresh installation image from the Microsoft server. This option has been designed to reinstall Windows 10 when the recovery feature is not working with the local image or using a branded computer with a custom image.

If you choose this option, the setup will download the same version already installed on the device, which means you cannot use this method to upgrade the computer to a newer version.

Also, if the device has a custom image from the manufacturer, this option will replace it with the one from Microsoft with all the standard settings and without custom drivers or trial software and tools. Erase options Click the Cloud Download option. Cloud download option Optional Click the Change settings option. This will open another window which contains all your startup applications on the administrator account.

Disable all application that you’re not using. You can simply just click on them and select disable. Click OK, Apply and close the configuration utility Restart your pc Once your computer is done restarting check for Updates. Once the updates are install, check your computer. I hope the information above helps. Please let me know how it goes. Have a wonderful day ahead and stay safe.

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