Hi!
Now that things have settled themselves down with my clean reinstall of
Windows 10 I thought it may be of benefit to others for me to put pen to
paper so to speak and write about the experience I had over the last 9 days.
I used the Windows 10 media creation tool to create my installation
media though at the time I didn’t have a blank DVD ROM or a USB stick
large enough to take the ISO file the media Creation tool spat out but
not to worry, I did have my software still on my computer that was
working and among st the installed bits and pieces was an ISO mounter -
the ability to mount an ISO file in such a way that Windows 10 thinks
its a virtual CD ROM drive - so after the ISO file was mounted I found
the setup App and ran it.
I then allowed the Windows Media Creation tool to update itself and
check whether my system was up to date.
I then followed the instructions telling the App exactly what I wanted
to do, a clean install with everything deleted.
From the time the reinstall actually started I knew I’d have no speech
so time to occupy myself in other ways for a couple of hours whilst I
waited for the Desktop machine and the Windows install to do its thing,
I like coffee very much so it made good sense to me to enjoy a cup in
the sunshine in a nice comfortable chair in my backyard.
So back to the machine in just under two hours, I held down the windows
key and pressed enter and was most delighted to here Narrator speak, it
seemed the reinstall had gone smoothly so now? Well it was just a matter
of following the wizard to make those final settings and adjustments,
even then I wasn’t at all worried in the full knowledge that I could
make further adjustments through Windows settings later.
Next came the installation of NVDA which presented no problem whatever
given I had the latest NVDA build on a USB stick in my right hand front
pocket of my trousers.
So now to get my data back and most of this was in Dropbox.
I had some initial problems installing Dropbox as the installation
wasn't as accessible as I remember it being once upon a not so long ago
but I managed in the end to get Dropbox going and the data then started
flowing through my Network from other machines with Dropbox accounts
onto my Desktop with the new Windows installed on it.
The next important tool I found worthwhile at this point of the
reinstall was the Password Manager I use - 1 Password -. Once I had the
1 Password data on my machine and had installed the 1 Password App I had
all the important login data I would need and other password information
- including software licences for Vipre Internet Security etc - at my
fingertips.
1 Password is an App which manages data securely, everything from
generated Passwords to logins to drivers license to bank accounts and
credit cards.
So There you have it, my thoughts on reinstalling Windows 10 and the key
tools I used to get the job done.
If the worst had come to the worst I had a backup of my working system
before the reinstall which I could have put onto the Desktop but
thankfully I didn’t need to take this cause of action.
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Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of
the halfwits in this world behind.
