Windows 10: Windows 10 seems slow

Go to your motherboard or PC site and download all the drivers onto your USB flash drive. If "Windows 10" is not listed, pick the highest version you can (as long as it is Vista or higher). Once you have all the drivers on your USB, you can clean install and then install each driver listed.

 

Did NVIDIA and going to do motherboard drivers from GIGABYTE now..

 

You should *never* defragment an SSD. All that does is put additional wear on it without any performance gain.

 

That works out then because apparently it's not possible. The HDD was tuned up though.
My knowledge of Windows, how to spell it.
Registered iOS developer and also Linux developer ( early stages).
Thank you for that information though, appreciate it as it applies to more than Windows...

 

Apologies if I sound dense but can someone please explain EXACTLY how to do a clean install? I keep laptop in tip top order, regularly optimising drives and cleaning up files. I installed windows 10 directly from the windows notification once it became available so why all the problems? The laptop won't even switch off - once I select shut down although screen goes black the light stays on, even though I've been into the settings and selected it to shut down rather than sleep. After about 20 mins I end up holding down the power key until it's switched off properly.

If clean install is quick and painless I may give it a try before reverting back to 8.1

 

I asked the same question earlier and nothing posted yet..
If I have a little knowledge here, I believe that it involves using a flash drive to load all needed drivers for you're motherboard, video card, Wireless adapter and maybe optical drive to. Then using that flash drive to "flash " the update via USB port instead of the "Windows" Update that pops up...
Maybe some someone can help more with this.
I have a 128Gig flash drive and I tried to take the update that way at Windows recommendation with no success.
Bottom line for me, it should be seamless as most of us are NOT computer professionals!
Fortunately I have a Solid State Drive that I can boot 8.1 if I want so I'm going to keep doing that for now.
27 hours straight trying to get 10 working right and I'm over it for now.
Tomorrow is a new day. See where things are then.
Best of luck to you

 

I am running an upgraded version. I did not bother with a clean install. Windows 10 is very fast and smooth for me.

 

Upgraded a computer at work from 7 to 10 and nearly everything runs snappier and faster. Did a upgrade from windows update when it was eligible.

 

after the free upgrade, how do you do a fresh install, buy the cd?

 

Windows 10 ISO

 

thank you so much, but I dont think I was given a product key when I upgraded

 

You shouldn't need it if you already have it installed and activated. Just download the ISO, burn to disk, and launch it from inside your current install. It will ask if you want to upgrade it clean install. If you pick clean, it should install and be automatically activated. At least it did for me...

 

I gave up and reverted back to 8.1 which in itself was a nightmare as it produced an error message which said I needed to switch off anti virus - even after I did so. Eventually I got so fed up I put it away. Since then I've done all the usual maintenance stuff and now it's back to its speedy self and email works again.

 

If your running sluggish and slow best bet is do the free upgrasde get the windows 10 media creation tool and make a iso or usb. and do a clean install. But as i did i used my external Hard drive and made a image before i upgraded. I'm going to upgrade my tower today. probably next weekend do a clean install since i have tons of programs to reinstall unlike my laptop. since i did a clean install on my laptop its been working great and i enjoy it and like it aside the privacy issue. its just annoying that i have to turn off alot of thigns but aside that. I can say i acutally like windows 10 vs 8.1 or 8. I think i will finally move away from 7.

 

Normally I would agree with the idea of clean install but if you delete old.windows file by doing a fresh install you will not be able to roll back to your previous versions of windows. As of now Microsoft will allow people to roll back up to 30 days after install and re-install up to a year later but not if you do a fresh install very bad idea who ever reads this DO NOT do a fresh install or your stuck!