Windows 10: Windows 10 reset issues

Long story short (ish).

My son has a small laptop with about 30GB of drive space. He enjoys downloading random stuff onto his laptop as many kids do. He downloaded something and the computer started behaving oddly. We cannot use the windows start button or "search" icon. When you click on them, nothing happens.

After discussing with him, he was okay with trying to reset his computer and start from scratch (like a new computer). so, we are able to get to the "Reset this PC" screen, select the option to "remove everything". Then a short while later we get the option to "just remove my files" or to "Fully clean the drive". Regardless of which option we select, we are confronted with a message stating that "Additional free space is needed on the drive where Windows is installed. Free up some space and try again".



This is where we are running into problems. We have removed all the personal documents that we can access via File Explorer and we have run the "Disk Cleanup" utilities to clear out the downloads directory, temp files, etc.

I simply don't know where to delete from next? As mentioned before, we aren't able to get to the screen to remove applications, etc due to the underlying windows issues.

i have tried to remove\delete contents of the AppData\local directory but some of this simply can't be deleted (if it even should).

Any ideas on where I can look to free up more space on the internal drive? what should I absolutely NOT attempt to delete in order to reset?

All thoughts are appreciated.

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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.

 

Windows 10 issues!

I had a similar issue but it only happen on older hardware, Windows would install the stock drivers which would make it nearly impossible to access the internet. Luckily I had newest Intel and Realtek NIC drivers that ran perfectly on Win 10 x64 1607 version, installing those fixed my that problem.

This also can happen on a non-fresh install of WIn 10, when you try to boot from a different computer/motherboard, after a single failed boot, Windows will try to re-detect and re-install all of the drivers, which definitely won't be the most stable or newest.

I tried everything, flushing cache, resetting router, uninstalling the device completely from the list, removing the LAN connection entirely, none of those helped.

 

Windows 10 fails to update


When you finish testing the Avast suggestion, make sure that you restart your machine.

Then if the issue persists, please return to the trouble shooting list in post# 89

I think there are three steps that remain; the WU troubleshooter, reset WU components, and manual WU reset.