This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Last Wednesday's rollout of KB3194496 to Windows Insiders, which is a Cumulative Update to build 14393.222 for Windows 10 PCs, impacted a "subset of users" who were unable to complete the upgrade, and ...

A complete reset is rarely the answer anymore ...

One key technique in the Windows repair playbook involves wiping out everything on the storage device (typically C:\) from which Windows boots and on which that OS resides. Prosaically enough, this ...

Above and beyond the benefits of a fresh do-over, clean installing Windows 11 improves security, exposes new features, and more. With the Windows 10 end of support date arriving on October 14, ...

I went off the official path and still landed on a Windows install I’d recommend.