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

Last Wednesday's rollout of KB3194496 to Windows Insiders, which is a Cumulative Update to build 14393.222 for Windows 10 PCs, impacted a "subset of users" who were unable to complete the upgrade, and ...

One key technique in the Windows repair playbook involves wiping out everything on the storage device (typically C:\) from which Windows boots and on which that OS resides. Prosaically enough, this ...

When applications are installed and updated on the Windows 11/10 Operating System a hidden directory designated as C:\Windows\Installer is used to store the Microsoft Installer (MSI) files and the ...