slui 4 to force it. While you talk to them, ask to activate Office as well.
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No! You can keep the existing OS as is. I've done it a few times. That said conventional wisdom is the do a clean install anything you change major components, and a motherboard is certainly a major component, but it isn't necessary with Windows 11.
If you have a computer with a few GB data and 3-5 applications, such as an average office PC, yes a clean installation is best. For a home PC with more than 1TB data and tens applications/games to install, no thanks, I would like to avoid that and spend this time in better ways. Like I said I did a clean installation a week ago and my limited free time haven't let me yet to reinstall everything. I have only installed 2/3 of my stuff to get a functional computer in the mean time. I admit it's a little faster, but I would have avoided it if I could.
Yes installing Windows on a modern PC with NVME drive takes literally a few minutes, but setting it up again after takes HOURS and that doesn't include the time needed to re-download games from the Windows store
It is pretty much standard procedure to reinstall your OS after changing out your system board for a different one. Why would you want all that old, useless system data to be cluttering up your system and causing potential BSOD errors? The short answer is YES it can be done but not in all cases. Even if you do manage to boot the old drive you would do well to reinstall the OS. You could try installing the OS to a fresh drive and then putting the old drive in a USB enclosure using Disk Management to drag and drop personal data back onto your newly installed OS — even right onto your desktop if you wish.
To save time obviously. If one stays home all day, he can backup, format, reinstall Windows and all of his applications and games in 2-3 days. Remember we are talking about a typical HOME PC, not an office PC with 3-4 applications. If he, like most of us, goes at work and then he has to deal with kids and live his life, he has VERY limited free time, usually late at the evening, so he needs more than a full week, maybe two weeks to do it. No thanks, I would prefer to watch a movie or series with my wife at that time and sleep at a reasonable time, not too late, so I will avoid a clean installation at all costs. I would even use magic, if possible, to resurrect a dead disk. Besides, as I have already said in my previous post, it CAN be done and all you have to do is install drivers for the new hardware and activate your apps. The newer the Windows version, the less likely it is to see a BSOD. This was back in the Windows XP and Vista days. Even Windows 7 can tolerate moderate change in hardware because most drivers are built-in.
Yes, and I'm in that camp, and why I prefer just to keep the drive as is. But there's also merit to a clean install.... no conflicting or lingering issues from the old build. Pro and con, why it's pertinent to mention both options.... and why I've done both
Indeed. User preference always takes precedence. There was a time when reinstalling an OS took a great deal of time. Today, with NVMe, faster memory and processing speeds an installation of Windows is fairly quick and painless. Like most of us, we don't have time to fiddle with fruitless registry edits, shooting in the dark, hunting for a fix online, running selective startup and going through each application to find that dead wood that turned out to be more defective than dead because it was never meant to run on that hardware in the first place. Who has time for that? Fortunately, today, especially with a newer OS, it is hardly uncommon to be able to install an operating system in less time than it takes to watch a movie with a loved one.
I have no excuse. I would like to claim its gamer talk but having read back my own post I was appalled at all the typos in there. When I type fast on my phone recently whole groups of words get joined together and somehow through the spellchecker.
