Windows 10: Media creation tool

Does anyone know if using the media creation tool to 'install' Windows 10 when Windows 10 is already installed (and keeping all files etc) will fix problems?

I have some issues with Windows (broken and missingpreinstalled apps - yes I've tried the Powershell commands etc) which troubleshooting hasn't seemed to help, have no restore point to fall back to, sfc hasn't helped etc etc.

I used the media creation tool to 'upgrade' my copy of Windows 10 to the current version when the November update hadn't downloaded and it installed and upgraded everything ok. So I'm wondering if doing that now will fix things.

:)

 

Media Creation Tool

Microsoft determined my Toshiba machine could be successfully upgraded from Win7 to Win10.

I was going to use the Media Creation Tool to either do an automatic repair or failing that perform a restore. Not a clean install.

 

Media Creation Tool

So, you cannot make the media tool from your Vista machine. Vista is an older os and is not supported anymore by Microsoft. What you should do is have your friend help you create the media tool. After that, run it in your Toshiba machine. You will have to
go to the bios of the machine to do a clean installation of Windows 10 (boot your machine from the usb). The thing is not about accepting Microsoft's offer to install Win. 10 on the Toshiba machine. As I mentioned, it is weather the machine specific meets
the requirements of Windows 10. If it doesn't and you are able to install Windows 10 successfully, the machine could have issues when running it. Plus, you might need a license for Windows 10.

So, you were able to install Windows 10 based on your last points? There are issues because your device is not compatible with Win. 10.

 

Possibly...

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade - Windows 10 Forums

 

I'm doing this right now as I broke all my apps playing with Powershell.... Usually it works.

 

Great, please let us know how you get on. Not that I don't believe you guys that it will work - I'd figured it might already - but seeing as you are already a willing guinea pig. ;-)

 

Worked fine, just had to do redo a couple of regedit tweaks I'd done before and re-associate pdf files with Sumatra not edge. Apps all working *Smile

 

Were these tweaks you needed to do because the repair method is fiddly? Or is this just your own tweaks you needed to do because the repair undid them?

 

It was my own tweaks. Just things like reversing the trackpad direction I'd done before and the repair overwrote with defaults (as it should).

The repair wasn't fiddly at all - just click on setup.exe and choose "Keep all apps and settings"

 

Cool, nice one. Thanks for the info! I'll go ahead and do this now.

 

Good luck. It took me about half an hour (or perhaps 45 minutes). When you have finished (and you are happy with the result) don't forget to run disk cleanup to delete your old Windows OS files.

 

Worked like a charm - thank you!

 

Depends what you're fixing. It will not fix folder permissions. and if you want to fix apps and even the start menu and it's tiles, best thing to do is to create a new account with admin and then delete C:\Program Files\WindowsApps and the tiledatalayer database folder(s) from the other accounts on the system and then do the install from the new account. After install, login from the original account.