There comes a time in every Windows users life when things start to feelslower.
And there are plenty of ways to make this process as painless as possible.
Its easy to generate a list of everything youve previously put on your PC.
Pull that up, similar to how you loaded Powershell, and punch in in wmic and hit Enter.
Then, enter this string:
Obviously, youll want to replacemylocation with yours.
Most people probably dont need to go to those lengths, however.
you’re able to never have too many backups.
Or, at least, thats what youll be thinking when your single backup solution fails.
Its an inelegant solution, but it works.
Youonly get oneof those nukes per year, after all.
If you’re free to, I recommend keeping your games off your primary hard drive whenever possible.
In my case, I dump everything I can easily redownload onto separate drives.
That includes games on Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Epic Games, GoG, et cetera.
Its all there, right on my other drives.
If all goes well, I then wont have to re-download or reinstall any games.
implement the Windows 10 ISO onto a USB flash drive
Discs?
Does your desktop or laptop even have an optical drive anymore?
The fastest and easiest way to reinstall Windows 10 is to do it from a USB flash drive.
Download Microsoftsmedia creation tool, and then use that to grab the latest Windows 10 ISO directly from Microsoft.
While your download is chugging along, go grab a utility called Rufus as well.
I also verify to find the color profile I previously created when calibrating my monitor.
However, I did want to give a quick shoutout to the Microsoft Store.
TakeiTunesfor instancethe Microsoft Store versioncan stay updatedwithout needing an extra Apple Software Update utility.