Windows 10: Installing Windows plan for disaster recovery

I'm trying to create a disaster recovery plan for installing Windows to my laptop if I were to to start from scratch.

My laptop is a Dell Inspiron and I'm currently running Windows 10 Pro v.2004.
I have three accounts on my laptop, one of them is a Windows Administrator account, the other one is a local administrator and the third one is a standard user account.
In practice I do all my work with the standard user account and only access the local administrator account if elevated access rights are required, or to do any Dell driver etc. updates.

I would like to preserve or create again the three accounts after the new installation of Windows.
My data can be backed up to at least three different media (at least two local and one remote backup in the cloud).
I can also make an image backup of C drive using Macrium Reflect.
My laptop came with Windows Home installed on it, but I upgraded it to Windows 10 Pro using account information from my previous PC which was scrapped. Therefore the pre-installed recovery or other data from Dell which I suppose must be hidden somewhere on my laptop is probably of no use in re-installing Windows 10 Pro, Dell utilities, drivers etc..

Concerns:

1. As I wrote above, I would like to preserve or create again the three Windows accounts. Note that only the standard user account has useful data for me. The others are like "shell" accounts and I wouldn't mind them being created as "blank" accounts.

2. I would like to change the existing user name for each of these accounts, because I don't like the name shown in the path to each one's application files and settings. Will I be able to do that after installing Windows, for example by creating them, but changing the user name which apparently is automatically created by Windows each time?

3. Am I going to have to go through each re-installed program and make suitable configuration changes as my existing ones will be lost? I suppose there is no shortcut to this.

4. A major fear that I have is not being able to find the Dell-specific software and drivers that I would need for my laptop. I know that the Dell Support website can show me details about my particular system based on the product ID, but these are based on the original installation (with Windows Home edition). Will my laptop function after the Windows 10 re-installation until I install the Dell specific drivers? How will I know that all Dell software and drivers will be found? Is there a way to make a list of this software and drivers as they now exist on my current installation to use for reference?

I would be grateful for advice on the above or any other information about preparing for or planning a new installation of Windows.

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