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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 109138" data-source="post: 1087158">These are things you physically noticed, its hard telling what else was corrupted in the background. Personally I would do a wipe and clean install of windows and all drivers. Then place my applications and personal files back on after determining the stability of the clean install. Download this tool, choose &quot;use the tool to create installation media&quot; and proceed from there. You will of course need a USB flash drive or DVD. [URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10%20[/URL]Using the method of not choosing your exact location to &quot;trick&quot; MS into not installing certain bloatware is not completely reliable. There is always the option of a clean/custom install to choose what gets installed but this can be daunting for average users. There are always options to uninstall unwanted bloatware once the clean install is completed either manually or via 3rd party applications.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 109138, post: 1087158"] These are things you physically noticed, its hard telling what else was corrupted in the background. Personally I would do a wipe and clean install of windows and all drivers. Then place my applications and personal files back on after determining the stability of the clean install. Download this tool, choose "use the tool to create installation media" and proceed from there. You will of course need a USB flash drive or DVD. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10%20[/URL] Using the method of not choosing your exact location to "trick" MS into not installing certain bloatware is not completely reliable. There is always the option of a clean/custom install to choose what gets installed but this can be daunting for average users. There are always options to uninstall unwanted bloatware once the clean install is completed either manually or via 3rd party applications. [/QUOTE]

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