There may be several reasons that you'll want to reinstall windows 10 on a computer that already
has windows 10 installed. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to reinstall windows 10
using the built-in utility from beginning to end. So stick around...
Sometimes the built-in utility doesn't work and you may be forced to use a bootable CD, DVD or USB.
I've got a video that shows you exactly how to do that, that I made a few years back. I'll have linked
below and above here. So let's have a look at my computer and I'll show you exactly how to do this.
We're inside windows 10, we're going to click the start button and go to settings. Scroll down to
the bottom under update and security, and then here we've got the recovery on the left side.
We've got two options here. One is resetting this pc
and you would hit get started. The other is the advanced startup, which allows you to do a few
other things, which you might want to consider for troubleshooting before
doing a reset. But we're not going to do that in this video. That'll be for another video if you're
interested, let me know in the comments below, and I can show you some of the advanced troubleshooting.
We're going to get started and from here we've got two options. One of them is to keep your
files, which is very convenient so you don't have to worry about backing up and restoring
the files afterwards, but it does wipe out all the programs and apps and settings. So you will have to
reinstall all your programs. So if you're using this for your own personal use, you can do this.
It's convenient. Take a backup anyway, or if you're going to be wiping this to give it away
to someone else, then I strongly recommend removing everything. We're going to go to remove everything.
and now you've got a couple more options; you could do the cloud download which will download
and reinstall windows using the latest version or the local install which will use the
software for reinstalling based on what's on the device currently. This is a lot faster, the cloud
download would be more up to date but it does take some space and it will take time depending
on the speed of your internet connection. For the purpose of this video we're going to assume that
you have the latest version of windows and or the latest version of windows 10 specifically
and so it's just going to reinstall that version of windows 10. So we'll go to the local reinstall
and it confirms what it's going to be doing. The current setting is to remove the apps and files
but not to clean the drive and then reinstall windows. Let's have a look at the change settings.
This has changed from previous versions. You have to go into change settings to see this information
where you can clean the data and as I mentioned earlier, one of the reasons you might be doing this
is because you're giving it away to someone else. So you would definitely want to turn this on in
that case. So it makes it a little more difficult for anyone to do a data recovery and get your data
back even though you wiped it and then you have an option again they're asking you to download
Windows. To reinstall windows from this device or turn it on and it will download the copy. So even
though we were prompted earlier, it's prompting us one more time, just to make sure that we are sure
of our options. So we're going to leave that and let it clean the drive and we'll hit confirm.
So it tells us here what it's going to do including cleaning the drive. So that's great,
we'll go ahead and hit next. So it starts preparing to remove it and it confirms
what it's going to be doing. We'll hit reset and it now starts preparing to do the actual reset.
Now we've gotten to a point in the installation where it's asking us to select some options.
So let's go through them. First it's asking about the region, so I'm in Canada
So I am going to scroll up...
Select Canada and hit yes.
and then it asks about the keyboard if it's right. Usually it's correct. It's US even though you're
if you're in canada, it's still US. You may find other options that may apply to you but
it's not the language, it's the keyboard. So you have to look at what type of keyboard you have.
If it's a US English keyboard, you would select US and that's usually what it is. So we would hit yes
and we're not adding a second keyboard layout. So we'll skip that.
Next it asks us for a license agreement that we have to accept.
They expect you to scroll through and read the agreement.
and assuming you've read that and you agree;
You accept. You don't have much choice if you want to continue. Now you can choose how you're setting
it up. If it's for personal use which is usually the case or if it's for an organization, then
you would be doing that through your company and there'll be other access through there. But for the
most part you're setting it up for personal use. Which would be through a Microsoft account the way
you sign in versus a company where you're signing into a server in a domain network environment.
Next you'll be able to sign in. So if you want to sign in with your Microsoft
account you put in your email address and then go through and add your password but
if you don't have a Microsoft account, you want to sign in with one, you can create one straight
from here. But if you want to be offline which means you can still have internet access on the
computer you're just not signing into Microsoft as you sign into the computer. You're just gonna
have a local username and password. So that information is stored locally on the computer only.
So we would choose offline account in that case, and then here it's asking us to sign in to enjoy
a full range of Microsoft Apps and services. So they're really encouraging you to hit next
and say okay, I changed my mind. I'll sign in with Microsoft account. NO! I want the limited experience.
Now I can put in my name.
and hit next; and I can put in a super secret password; and let's try not putting a password.
Just in case you want to do that and it does allow us to go without a password, but
I strongly recommend that you do have a password. Now there's going to be a series of questions here.
Asking yes and no or basically a question on the top and a question on the bottom.
and I would say, if you don't understand what any of this means, then after you read
it and if you really don't know, then you would just choose the second option here
and which is basically the more private option. The top option here gives you these benefits.
But it is less privacy. So it's totally up to you, but as far as I'm using your location you're
going to have these benefits, but obviously no I don't want anyone to know my location;
and finding your device, it's great if you lost it but they have to track you in order to know that.
So if you don't want tracking, say no and again the top option for diagnostic information will send
everything or just the required diagnostic data.
Inking and typing, so this is other services.
You don't need to have any of these things. You can say no to everything.
Advertising.
and now it asks about Cortana. A lot of people I find are not enjoying that, so we would say not now.
and now we're back in the Windows and we've completely done a fresh install of Windows.
If you chose the first option of keeping your data, then your data would simply
reappear. You would see it there on your desktop and in your documents. But if you chose to
wipe it including wiping the data, then it will be fresh and clean just like this.
You'll be prompted with Edge which they've been doing for the last few versions.
If you say maybe later, it's going to keep bugging you, but you can say get started.
It takes a moment preparing and they want to encourage you to sign in;
but you don't have to. Again you can be offline. So hit complete the setup;
and here it is; sign in to sync the data; if you want to synchronize between your various devices
or continue without signing in; and now we have our Edge browser setup and a fresh copy of Windows.
So that's it for this quick tutorial and I hope you guys did find it helpful. If you did, please do hit
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