Bring PC back to speed

[xSimone]

So every 6 months to a year, I backup everything, format, reinstall Win10, then drag over what I want to keep to get my PC back into peak performance, working 100% without issue.

 

Is there alternatives to doing this?

 

EG, setting a system restore point right up to the point that I've finished setting up my new PC, and just reverting to that state?

 

Just curious, or is there no alternative and format's the way to go?

[Ezzy-525]

A nice fresh Windows installation always makes everything better.

[NelizMastr]

It shouldn't bog down in just 6 months. If that's the case you're doing something wrong. Are you booting from last centuries technology (a harddisk) or from this century's (ssd)?

[xSimone]

38 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

It shouldn't bog down in just 6 months. If that's the case you're doing something wrong. Are you booting from last centuries technology (a harddisk) or from this century's (ssd)?

i7 6700HQ

GTX 1070 8GB

32GB Ram

250GB SSDx2 

1TB HGST HDD

 

My specs. I just do loads of shit and crumple the system. Win10's garbage anyhow so I always eventually get problems with the stuff I do. Gawh I miss 8 lol.

[xSimone]

40 minutes ago, Ezzy-525 said:

A nice fresh Windows installation always makes everything better.

Thanks Mr Angle. I always thought as much. :< Just hoped there'd be an alternative, just to sate my curiosity.

[WkdPaul]

12 minutes ago, xSimone said:

My specs. I just do loads of shit and crumple the system. Win10's garbage anyhow so I always eventually get problems with the stuff I do. Gawh I miss 8 lol.

Do a fresh install, then go ahead with all the drivers and basic software you need. When all said and done make a system image. When it's slow, restore the image. It's faster than a clean install and then going through the updates, drivers and random softwares install.

[xSimone]

1 hour ago, wkdpaul said:

Do a fresh install, then go ahead with all the drivers and basic software you need. When all said and done make a system image. When it's slow, restore the image. It's faster than a clean install and then going through the updates, drivers and random softwares install.

I'd love to do a system image, however, it's a little difficult when my NVME drive isn't natively supported by the motherboard. I think it'd be highly likely I'd run into an error when it comes to drive detection.

[xSimone]

To expand, to get to my drive when doing a fresh install, I need to manually load a driver from a USB. 

 

Namely an Intel IRST Driver.

[geo3]

I used to do this on older versions of windows. I've never felt the need on Windows 10.

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, xSimone said:

I'd love to do a system image, however, it's a little difficult when my NVME drive isn't natively supported by the motherboard. I think it'd be highly likely I'd run into an error when it comes to drive detection.

A system image is like a time capsule. When you restore from it, the system reverts back to that state. This includes things like activated software (at least when I did it)

 

The only issue is that you need to update your software. So if you do initiate a system image restore, it might be prudent to update everything (including Windows), verify everything still works pretty well, then create an updated image.