Is it possible to do a clean install of windows 10?

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Having received my new laptop with a 'base' copy of win 10 rather than win 8 (but that's fine) when I upgraded to the latest version of win 10 I had to then remove 27gb of old windows files.

Is there an up to date iso or is this as good as it gets.

I bought a 768p screen yet when I checked it it was set to 150% scaling. I was able to 'upgrade' to 1080p ips panel just by moving the slider:D
 
frod said:
Can't you just run cleanmgr
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Honestly I've never heard of that. will check it out though so thanks. I do prefer a clean install though and whoever at laptops direct did the upgrade on my pc messed it up as they set the dirty bit on the c:/drive!

Looks like a clean install may be best.
 
Snapsh0t said:
Download the Microsoft Media Creation Tool here then run it to download whichever ISO you need. The current version is the 1607 'Anniversary edition'.
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Is the correct answer. If you do an upgrade, remember to run disk cleanup and system files to remove the old windows to release space
 
Byker28i said:
Is the correct answer. If you do an upgrade, remember to run disk cleanup and system files to remove the old windows to release space
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Yeah I prefer to format the drive at the installation stage to avoid all that!
 
Byker28i said:
Is the correct answer. If you do an upgrade, remember to run disk cleanup and system files to remove the old windows to release space
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If you're 100% sure you don't want to roll back.

Incidentally you get a Windows.old folder, or at least a large temp folder for each larger update (I.e from 1511 to 1607).

If you can live with the space being tied up for a bit I'd generally recommend keeping it for a bit, I've had to roll back a couple of times to fix a few faults.
 
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