Just upgraded my Tablet to Windows 10, how to clean it up?

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I just upgraded my original Toshiba Encore 8" Tablet to 10 via the media tool and it installed and activated fine but I'd like to to clean it up, regain some space and optimize it.

How to do i go about this, any guides or should I just do a format and clean install and if i did this does windows contain all the drivers for my tablet?
 
Personally, I'd find all the W10 and W8.1 drivers for it and put them on USB, and then use the Reset PC option inside Windows to take it back to a fresh start.
 
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pumaz said:
I just upgraded my original Toshiba Encore 8" Tablet to 10 via the media tool and it installed and activated fine but I'd like to to clean it up, regain some space and optimize it.

How to do i go about this, any guides or should I just do a format and clean install and if i did this does windows contain all the drivers for my tablet?
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You might want to read through the FAQ too for some privacy stuff too if your worried about that kind of stuff :) Dont know how much of it applies to the surface though.
 
Thanks guys :)

I converted my original Windows 8.1 to Wimboot some time ago and wondered if this would have any negative affect on my current 10 install?

One other thing, I had to do a 32 bit upgrade but I wonder could I do 64 bit clean install if I can get 64 bit drivers?
 
Not sure if their is separate licences for 32 and 64. I mean you could try it and see if it activates if not go back to 32 :P Let us know either way though lol (for the FAQ) :)
 
Moving to 64bit would probably work from a Windows licensing perspective, but I imagine it would open a can of worms in terms of driver support.

I took my tablet from 32bit 8.1 to 32bit 10 for this reason, and had zero issue with any of the drivers being picked up and working fine.
 
Skeeter what tablet do you have, was it a clean install and did you have to manually install any drivers?

Cheers :)
 
Not sure what the status is with the encore and 64 bit issues with the UEFI bios and connected standby - both of which is why it originally shipped with 32 bit Windows 8.
 
pumaz said:
Skeeter what tablet do you have, was it a clean install and did you have to manually install any drivers?

Cheers :)
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HP Stream 7. Went from 32bit 8.1 with Bing to 32bit 10 Home using the Media Creation tool and running it within the OS to upgrade. I didn't have to install any drivers or anything, it a worked perfectly as soon as it booted into Windows 10.

Im reluctant to now clean install it as I CBA with the drivers hassle. It was a pretty much box fresh 8.1 I moved from anyway so I'm just going to clear up old OS files using disk cleanup and leave it at that.
 
Skeeter said:
HP Stream 7. Went from 32bit 8.1 with Bing to 32bit 10 Home using the Media Creation tool and running it within the OS to upgrade. I didn't have to install any drivers or anything, it a worked perfectly as soon as it booted into Windows 10.

Im reluctant to now clean install it as I CBA with the drivers hassle. It was a pretty much box fresh 8.1 I moved from anyway so I'm just going to clear up old OS files using disk cleanup and leave it at that.
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Yeah did pretty much the same as you then and I can see where your coming from on the clean install and Think I'll just do same as you, clean it up and see how i get on :)
 
did a clean install with my dv8p, but the install routine does not have touchscreen drivers so you will need to use an OTG cable and attach a mouse.
 
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