Windows 10: Is resetting my computer constantly harmful?

(Sorry if my English is not perfect I am native)

I have been working with a Windows 10 for about 2 or 3 years, and in the first year, I didn’t really care about my computer getting any type of malware, since I store everything online and I don’t share any personal information (or so I think, but since early 2019 I started caring more about the performance of my computer and security of my data. I tried using various antivirus softwares(Norton, Avast, Etc.), but none of them exterminated malware.

Tired of having a slow computer, I tried resetting my computer for it to perform better, after a few hours it to reset, and when it was done I just had to install the apps I previously owned, and it was just like new. 4 months later, I got a virus from a phony looking website, and I reseted my computer, only to be formatted again just a week later.

The incident happened about 6 months ago, and I am not currently planning on resetting my computer once again, on fear of breaking it.

TL;DR: I reset my computer a lot, and I am scared it could get harmed.

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Windows 10 infinite restart black screen

Thank you john for all of your help i decided to get the usb my computer came with and factory reset it i didnt have anything that personal or valueable so its ok thanks for the help though i appreciate it

 

How do I install windows 10 without harming my windows 7?


Here's what I suggest you to do:

1. From Windows 7, download & Install Macrium Reflect Free. Connect one of your new 500GB HD and clone your current Windows 7 to it. Follow step 1,2,3 from the screen shot:

1. Disconnect your current Windows 7 then boot up with the new cloned copy of Windows 7
2. Upgrade it to Windows 10 so it will be fully activated.
3. If you decide to keep Windows 10 then do a fresh install of Windows 10. If not, disconnect the 500GB HD containing Windows 10 then re-connect your Windows 7
4. You are back to where it was before.

 

Windows 10 computer causes router to reset constantly

I have three computers in the network.

One of them was Windows 8.1 and recently upgraded to Windows 10.

When this computer is turned on and it connects to internet, most times it causes router to start resetting itself constantly: all router lights off, then they come on until it connects, a few seconds afterwards, the process starts again and so on. Sometimes this is resolved by rebooting the Windows 10 computer and then it works well and router stays connected. But sometimes, it cannot be used because router starts resetting and nobody can have internet access.

When this computer is off, the router works ok.

Any ideas on how to fix this will be really appreciated. The computer had no issues when it had Windows 8.1

Thanks.

EDIT:

As suggested by CBHacking in comments below, we installed WireShark. The Windows 10 computer has lots of ARP requests like "Who has 10.0.0.2? Tell 10.0.0.7". IP 10.0.0.2 is always the router. Then, another thing that looks strange is that there are many "Browser" protocol requests, sent to IP 10.0.0.255. Don't know why to that IP address and this looks like a suspect. These requests read "Request Announcement COMPUTERNAME", or "Browser Election Request", or Request Announcement WORKGROUP<1d>.

Wireshark running on a Windows 7 computer on the same network is not showing these requests. The Windows 10 one looks like it is mad making lots of Browser requests. No device has IP 10.0.0.255 where it sends these messages.

Any ideas on what these are, and how we could stop them? Is this 10.0.0.255 IP address something that is misconfigured?

Thanks for any help.