Clean Install

Edges look awful in all games that i have played. Things that I tried to fix the problem: -Changing Settings in Nvidia Control Panel. -Clean install. ( Used DDu and installed drivers that my laptop came with. ver 344 ) -Starting Nvidia Control Panel as administrator with Windows 8...

So I just bought a lenovo x220 and I have Windows 7 on it. The only thing installed is the OS. I am going to put a ssd in to replace the mechanical hard drive. I want to keep the OS because I don't want to have to buy windows. I want to do a clean install on the ssd to make sure it is installed...

Hi all. Thanks for all your advice on choosing a laptop last week. I've just bought a Lenovo Yoga 500 15.6" and love the feel and look of it, but I've encountered a problem. The amount of bloatware is rather annoying so I wanted to do what I've always done on previous laptops or PCs of mine. I...

I have a Toshiba Satellite P50-A. It came with Windows 8 when I bought it two years ago, and I upgraded to 8.1 when it was available. A while ago I also upgraded to Windows 10 the first chance I got, and that is where my problems began. When gaming, I would get video tdr errors and frequent...

A few days ago I did a clean install and redownloaded uTorrent (the latest version). The installer asked me to download some kind of suspicious program in order to install uTorrent itself. Naturally I declined and closed it. However, the idiot me decided to try again and clicked the installer a...

I have laptop from a friend which is the Acer Aspire 5732z. He gave it to me to remove malware and viruses but there were so many that I chose to do a clean install of Windows 7. Everytime I do a clean install eveything works fine except the Windows Update which gets stuck at "Checking for...

Hello. I'm going to buy a used laptop today. Now, the thing is, the current owner (whom I do not know personally) said he will do a clean install. If it'll actually appear to be a fresh Windows, should I just download a few different virus scanners to make sure it's fine, or should I reinstall...

First, sorry for my english. My native language is spanish. I didn't find too much information about this kind of virus "outbound" so i still can't find a solution. The problem: Pop up banners on EVERY browser, even after formated the pc with clean install. I've used: windows defender, spybot...

I upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10 but I was having a lot of issues with 10 so I did a clean install of 8.1 from a bootable USB (I deleted Windows.old without thinking so I was not able to use the "Revert to 8.1" option in Windows 10). After updating drivers and all the housekeeping of installing...

I am using a USB flash drive to install the windows 10 pro final version. created it using the media creation tool provided by Microsoft, however when I boot using it and I begin the installation I have a problem. Right after clicking the "install" I get an error message. "A media driver your...

I was using Windows 8 since it's launch, upgraded to 8.1 and then to 10. 5 months or so ago when I was on 8.1, I started having this problem of video files played on any media player (tried MPC & VLC) would crash suddenly. I thought a clean install would fix it but didn't bother to do it at the...

setup new dell 8.1 laptop without all dell garbage programs?

Hey all, A friend of mine just bought a new asus n551jk laptop, and decided to install a pirated version of a virus scan, and powerdvd, plus a game. And then it became a little slower, obviously, then asked me for support. So i figured out maybe the software just took to much ram, because there...

Hi all, Finally getting around to upgrading my laptop this weekend (RAM from 4gb to 8gb & 320GB HDD to 240GB SSD). I've seen numerous tutorials regarding cloning the HDD & OS etc, but I would really like to perform a "fresh" install. Current HDD has a recovery partition, no disc - although I...

I'm new to trying to troubleshoot computer issues so I apologize if this seems vague.. Basically the issue is that I need to do a clean-slate install of windows 8 and I've hit my dead end. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite pre-installed with windows 8. A few months ago I booted up and got "no...