Windows 10: Resetting Windows 10 to factory settings, need help with Windows 7

Hello,

I previously made a thread detailing my dual booting between Windows 7 and Windows 10 on my HP laptop. This has served me very well for the last 3 years, with Windows 7 performing as expected (this was the OS I have been using). However, Windows 10 is not as straightforward.

Issues I have ran into with Windows 10:

• Software not running at all, or very poorly, on Windows 10, which run perfectly fine under Windows 7
• CPU Parking on Windows 10 which I am unable to resolve (also, one of the recent Windows 10 updates (1803 or 1809) has locked out my power settings so only Balanced is viewable)
• Fan speed a bit slow on Windows 10 (and also Windows 7), cannot be manually adjusted
• Slower boot up times on Windows 10, as fast boot has to be disabled for dual booting to work

Issues that I am now facing with Windows 7:

• End of life on 1/14/20 - need to use Windows 10 as my main partition. However I also need to keep Windows 7 as there is software that won't work on Windows 10, that I need to continue using.
• Windows Media Player will no longer get metadata for CDs on Windows 7 - so I have to use Windows 10 for that
• Bluetooth not working on Windows 7 (though that has been like it for ages and can't be resolved)

I need to keep my dual booting between the two operating systems as my older laptop, that is Windows 7 only, has severe overheating issues that cannot be rectified without motherboard removal - and even then may not be 100% fine.

The last time Windows 10 ran smoothly was when I first got this laptop, before the dual booting. And I have a USB by the manufacturer that will recover to factory settings - which I think will be the best way of getting Windows 10 working.
However, this will completely blow away everything currently on the hard drive - including Windows 7 (which is currently fine) - and I do not want to clean install Windows 7 again, because of the driver issues I encountered previously (in the end, had to pay an IT shop to get the drivers installed as they were so difficult to configure properly).

What I would like to do is:

1. Back up my Windows 7 partition to another hard drive as is (effectively cloning it)
2. Running the HP USB recovery to reset Windows 10 to how it was out of the factory
3. Shrink the new Windows 10 partition so that it has enough space for the old Windows 7 partition to go into
4. Add the Windows 7 partition back on to the PCs hard drive, setting up dual booting again without the loss of data or the need to reinstall drivers.

My specs can be found on my profile, and the 2TB HDD is currently configured to 1TB + 1TB. I cannot switch to an SSD because 2TB SSDs are going to be horrifically expensive, even if they exist.

Any help on this would be appreciated!

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Windows 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

I really hate having to come here and ask for help, but I really am stumped. It hurts my geek pride. I have a PC with fairly modern hardware in it. It has a p8p67 pro in it. I have tried upgrading windows 10 on it twice now. Both times I have had the same result.

After windows finishes upgrading it goes to the log in/set up screen. I can't do anything. No keyboard or mouse input is accepted.

I will list some, or hopefully all, of the troubleshooting steps I have tried:

• Move keyboard and mouse to different USB ports.
• Try different keyboard or mouse.
• Restart computer, repeatedly.
• Google for related issues.
• Update Bios, because why not.
• Create boot media and revert to windows 7.

The windows 10 system restore boot media works fine with keyboard and mouse. All USB ports work in windows 7. I don't know what is wrong. I suspect that windows 10 is lacking a driver of some sort, but since the computer accepts no input I have no way of checking for which driver let alone installing it.

Please help me figure this out. If I have to revert back to windows 7 again, I am not going to get it upgraded to windows 10. Thank you in advanced.

 

Repair Windows 7/8/10

Reset-WindowsUpdate.ps1


This script will completely reset the Windows Update client settings on Windows 7, 8, 10, and Server 2012 R2. It will configure the services and registry keys related to Windows Update for default settings. It will also clean up files related to Windows Update, in addition to BITS related data.

Download from Technet

 

How to reset whole netsh? (Windows 7)

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Now on Windows 7 this same command says no go and only way I can see it is by building .cmd/.bat which does something like:

Code: netsh winsock reset all netsh int 6to4 reset all netsh int ipv4 reset all netsh int ipv6 reset all netsh int httpstunnel reset all netsh int isatap reset all netsh int portproxy reset all netsh int tcp reset all netsh int teredo reset all[/quote] now the king of the hill of bugs is this doesn't actually do even it's job even after reboot. values setup to are not reset to defaults. (I know I could add more entire list of entries there is, but looking for clean delete/wipe settings & default everything not to dump entire list of resets.)

So, anyone got a plan B?