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Installing Windows 10

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 Is you computer starting to run slower and slower? Why not re-install Windows 10? There are various ways to do this. What I am going to cover here is doing a clean install of Windows 10 from the beginning with a USB drive. First of all you need to download the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool from this website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10 Scroll down until you see 'Download Tool Now' Click on this button and the Media Creation tool will be downloaded. Once it has downloaded, run the file until you see this screen: Click on Allow and you should see the following screen: Now select the option to Create Installation media and click Next: You will now see the language and Windows architecture options. These are initially greyed out, but if you untick the box that says about using recommended options, you will be able to change the language etc. Once this is done click Next. You now get the option to create the media on a USB or create an ISO file for

About me

About Me This might be the shortest 'about me' ever, lets see 😀 I started using computers back in the 1980's and eventually did a distance learning course on Computer repair and upgrade in 1999. Not long after that I secured a job as a computer technician in a local school. This involved various tasks, but mainly looking after the suites of Acorn thin client computers and the Acorn Risc PC's. The network was very small at the time, but there were plans to expand it. The network expanded and I was now looking after a much larger network. We still had thin client computers, but these were running Windows Server NT4. This soon got changed to Windows Server 2000.Fast forward 20 years and I am still at the same school, but now am the Network Manager. Servers have come and gone and so have technicians. Now I am looking after the whole campus on my own, because the "budget" will not stretch to a technician. I have been repairing and upgrading computers locally for m