Doing a clean install of my T100....

[Cableguy]

Hi guys...

I have planned doing a fresh clean install of my PC (ASUS T100) and am considering downgrading from Win10, which has become very sluggish, to a very more stable and reliable WinXP based (SP3) S.O.

So my question is, for the OS gurus out there, will XP be able to cope with all the base features of my hardware, like the built in sensors, Bluetooth/Wifi, sd, touchscreen, etc?
At the time of first release, it came with Windows 8.1

Or should I consider Windows7 instead?

Thanks for all advice, and happy new year!

 

[MikeH]

Windows7... but I still use XP on my MacBookPro Vbox for B4X

Happy New Year to you

 

[NJDude]

...to a very more stable and reliable WinXP based (SP3)

LMFAO!!!, the best joke of the year.

Anyhoo, my first question is, how much memory does that PC has? I have an old HP laptop with only 2GB of RAM running Win 10 (the latest "preview" version, in fact the purpose of that old crappy laptop is to test Win 10) and yes, is not a speed demon but it's ok, stable and usable, maybe before going to that extreme you should upgrade the memory and tweak Win 10 a little.

My second question is: Are you seriously considering Win XP?, if you absolutely want to downgrade then I would recommend Win 7 Pro.

My third and last question, Why downgrade? Win 7 is not supported and Windows 10 works great.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Cableguy]

I consider downgrading because of all the useless shortcuts and wasted space Win10Home cames with (referring to the web based apps), so, OK, maybe not XP, so between Win7 and Win10, h
which is best and less cluttered, or can be more easily cleaned up after install?

I have 2GB RAM, 32GB SSD ROM (Non Changeable) and 1000GB HDD in the keyboard/dock

 

[NJDude]

I consider downgrading because of all the useless shortcuts and wasted space Win10Home cames with...

Those apps can be removed with a simple PowerShell command, if you have admin rights you can remove them for all users.

You can custom almost everything, just take some time depending on the level of customization and you'll be golden.

 

[Cableguy]

my main issue is, having only 32GB for SO, I find myself in a curious situation, where I have almost 27GB used (the SO shouldn't be more than 5/6GB right?) and the control panel tells me that all listed (installed) programs make up about 3GB... So in total I should have an occupation of about 8 to 10GB, 12GB at worse, plus the SDKs and related, but they don't account for the extra almost 15GB missing, do they??

 

[NJDude]

Oh I see, well, if you have a small drive or limited space will be tricky, if I recall correctly the OS will require ~20GB, but, there is a way to "clean" the installation and reduce it but the OS drive will require ~20GB anyway, you will have to install your apps on your 1TB drive.

 

[Cableguy]

20GB for the OS? Dahm... I was thinking on about 10GB (No additional programs, clean install)

 

[Cableguy]

Just checked, win10 needs 16GB for x86 and 20GB for 64bit...

 

[NJDude]

Just checked, win10 needs 16GB for x86 and 20GB for 64bit...

Ah ok, I knew was something like that.

 

[Cableguy]

So, Since I hadn't yet done the fall creators update install, I decided to go for a reset with full wipe... (done a backup first of important files)...
Result... after a few hours, and a bunch of tweaks...

Capacity - 28,4GB
Used - 8,68GB
Free - 19,7GB

A lot more than I expected...

 

[NJDude]

Cool.

After you're done with everything you can clean the install.

Put the lines below in a batch file and run it as Administrator, it will take a while, that will tidy things up.

cls
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /SPSuperseded

Also, you can delete the contents of "C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download", don't delete the download folder but whatever is in it, then, run CLEANMGR as Administrator from the command prompt, check ALL the boxes, that will remove all the temp files, old installations, updates, etc.

 

[LucaMs]

Win 98?

 

[RandomCoder]

If you don't particularly like using the DOS prompt (it still tickles me that DOS commands are present to this day in Windows 10!), then you can install a utility such as CCleaner by Piriform do clean the system for you and keep onto of the temp files etc. I've used it many times on various PC's that people have brought to me either running slow or having a shortage of space. It's very good and free!
There is even a portable version which you can install on a USB stick if you don't want to install it onto your system...
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

Enjoy,
RandomCoder

 

[NJDude]

If you don't particularly like using the DOS prompt (it still tickles me that DOS commands are present to this day in Windows 10!)

DOS commands will eventually disappear (According to Microsoft but not date set yet) that's why by default PowerShell is used instead of the good old CMD.exe, regarding CCleaner, I love it and use that product all the time, in fact, I recommend it, however, certain things cannot be done with it, like the ones I posted above.

 

[MaFu]

It's not a DOS prompt and there's no DOS commands. It's a command line window like the console in Linux.