Bloatware Banished: Windows 10 Eliminates the Need to Ever Reinstall Windows on New PCs

[Porthos]

This Looks good if true unless you are making lots of money removing crapware.

http://www.howtogeek.com/216751/blo...he-need-to-ever-reinstall-windows-on-new-pcs/


While Windows 8 used a recovery image that manufacturers could customize, Windows 10 uses a more intelligent system that rebuilds Windows in-place without the need for a separate recovery image. The system is cleaned up and the latest files are kept — this means you also won’t have to install Windows Updates after refreshing or resetting your PC. Here’s how Microsoft explained it:


This doesn’t actually solve the “crapware” problem for everyone. Less knowledgeable users will likely still end up with PCs filled with bloatware after performing a normal refresh or reset. But geeks will at least be able to get a fresh system much more quickly. And average users will be able to find these instructions, make a quick change, and refresh their PCs to get a fresh system — it’s easier than a full reinstall.

 

[NYJimbo]

I read it a few times and it still sounds like the same thing with a few more options. Most importantly they seem to have this Pollyannaish idea that there will be some kind of store of good, uncorrupted, reloadable chunks of the O/S on your hard drive and that will make it easier or faster to reload. Let's not forget it appears you have to have a bootable O/S to actually perform any of this happy restore or reset business.

Any tech will tell you that they see tons of machines with no restore points, corrupted, missing boot images, etc. If a machine comes in with a very bad virus or unfixable BSOD or any number of other things, this menu driven restore just ain't gonna happen. We already have tools like MSFIXIT or SFC or DISM that are supposed to save us from a bad system and so many times they don't do what they are supposed to.

I guess I will have to wait a while to test these recovery procedures myself, but from years of dealing with MS operating systems, I don't have a lot of faith in them.

 

[ZenTree]

I agree. I think it will have a place but it won't be a silver bullet. The bit about keeping updates worries me. You get a new update that borks the system. You somehow get this to run, it will replace everything but the troublesome update. That's just one scenario off the top of my head.

 

[JoeTech]

Even if this does work like it is supposed to, I doubt any of my customers would even know this option exists to use it or will even bother to try it, so I'm not too worried.

 

[nlinecomputers]

And it nukes all of your software so I can see clients doing it and then going where's quickbooks?!? And if they start tying into the Microsoft store for software then it going to turn into your phones. The bloatware and your desired apps will return automagicly downloaded by the store just like what happens when you nuke your phone and login under the same google or apple account.

 

[cypress]

Thought I saw a post awhile ago where Candy crush was going to be put on Windows 10. That's junk to me.