This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

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Windows 11 Insider Beta Build 26220.7859 (KB5077223) for 25H2 adds a Microsoft 365 upgrade option in Settings, plus taskbar and File Explorer fixes.

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Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 last October. Many PCs with Windows 10 don't pass Microsoft's strict requirement check. It's possible to bypass this and ...

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Microsoft has had to issue two out-of-band updates to fix its buggy Windows 11 patch. Microsoft has had to issue two out-of-band updates to fix its buggy Windows 11 patch. is a senior editor and ...

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