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Originally Posted by johnhook
Really no one should need to do a clean install any more than once anyway. Unless of course like many in IT you appear to enjoy having to reinstall everything over and over again
How I will be doing things on July 29th
Take a system image of my working 8.1 pro
Upgrade to 10 take a system image.
Recover to clean install update and install any drivers then take a system image
Install all applications and take a system image
With all these in place I can mess around with any of the install run tests on different applications and if anything goes wrong I have a choice of where to recover from. Once I am happy everything is working I can get rid of some of the images until this point I will keep everything. I will then back up my fully working windows 10 install to a couple of places so it is safe as well as keeping a local image. With this hardware then I will never need to run a clean install as can easily recover to a fully tested working system in minutes
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Depends on your needs. As an IT Technician, my needs for software change quite regularly, and I only reformat the machine (usually) once a year, and tend to install software as and when I need it. I reformat twice or more on the odd occasion that I really need to. So, the amount of time I would save by switching to using images would be minimal at best. At worst, it would take me longer to generate all the images than it currently does to re-install what I need.