How to clean-install a Windows 10 upgrade

[Ronald]

The current, free, Win10 upgrade is meant to convert an existing Win7 or Win8 setup to Win10, while retaining the user files and as much of the existing settings, software, and customizations as possible.

But if you know how, you also can use the upgrade to give your PC a totally fresh, from-scratch start; you'll get a clean install that can't carry over any potential problems from your current setup — no errors, no misconfigurations, and no junk.

A clean install ensures that your new Win10 setup is 100 percent pristine — and as lean and clean as possible.

Source: http://windowssecrets.com/newsletter/how-to-clean-install-a-windows-10-upgrade/

[Skhilled]

Actually, there are a few links here on how to do that too...although this is more detailed. Just remember that doing it this way you will probably lose everything in the process. It is imperative that you backup everything up to a separate hard drive or flash drive first to make sure you keep things like photos, program settings, bookmarks, etc. You can copy them to your new Win 10 partition when it has completed.

I haven't been to Windows Secrets in a few years. I remember when they first started. LOL