Windows 10: Repartitioning a Windows 10 PC?

I have a HP-P077tx laptop with Windows 10 installed, upgraded from Windows 8.1 which was preinstalled.

Now I was planning to change the size and number of partitions of my hard drive and reinstalling windows 10 with a bootable Windows 10 usb drive. I have couple of question regarding that:-

• Since I am repartitioning I saw some hidden partitions like 'efi' containing windows boot manager and some recovery partition. But I have already made a backup of all the useful data, so during formatting and repartitioning of hard drive druing install, should I remove all partitions or should I leave these recovery partition and efi partition for safe install?? And mind it I have already made backup of necessary files and software
• Second, since I am doing a clean install using bootable usb drive do I need installation key as my PC came preinstalled with windows and I do not have a key...

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

I'm going to be building a new PC on Christmas and want to install Windows 10 on it. I have Windows 10 on my current PC, which I installed upgrading from 8.1 with the files on a USB. How do I go about installing a clean copy of Windows 10 on this new PC? I think I recall something about installing it once makes Microsoft recognize your hardware, but since this will be a PC I'm not sure what steps I need to take. Do I need to go 8.1 -> 10 or is there a method of going directly to 10?

 

Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

What's your intended PC specs ??