Maybe it is obvious, but I don't want want to lose any of my wife's data and I would much prefer to have the reinstall not touch the data, so that I do not have to back-it-up and then re-install the data. The un-needed (in my opinion) Dell stuff running in the background as well as other stuff that may or may not be easy to identify.ġ) About the 'clean' install. This morning, immediately after a long reboot, it took almost 2 minutes for OneNote to load (spent about a minutes with a little popup on the screen that said 'Processing', I guess it meant loading).Īnyway, something is obviously affecting the system's performance - so I was wondering if a clean (not sure what clean means) reinstall of Windows 10 would/should fix everything - as opposed to trying to troubleshoot the startup tasks running and removing
I have a 3-year old, slower desktop, that I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 - and I can reboot in far less than a minute whereas my wife's laptop takes minutes to reboot - and My wife's Windows 10 Dell laptop just keeps getting slower and slower.
My question is about re-installing Windows 10 on a one-year old laptop that was purchased with Windows 10 pre-installed. Hi- Pretty much the same question as I have found in this Community, but most of the others are regarding reinstall after an upgrade.
