Abom1331 0 Posted November 15 Share Posted November 15 This is a bit thinking things through by bouncing thoughts off the collective. So ... unboxed, gone through the OOBE, got up and running - what next for the set up process? I felt last year I had this off pat after several set ups, but a year down the road I can't remember anything! Wondering what people do to set up their machines, and I'm not really finding a lot of posts on the matter. First step for me is probably just play with it as it is for a week or so without doing too much except for MS updates; I'm in the UK and online purchases get a 14 day no-quibble return for any reason whatsoever, and I'm thinking I don't want to mess with it too much or put too much time into it until I'm sure as it probably should be close to factory if I return it. Second step I guess is probably get rid of unwanted programs and bloat, get settings and UI the way I want them, run updates again, clean up and take a disk image so I have a clean, original bare bones back up. Third step is probably load personal programs (for me, that's MS Office, Canon camera utilities, VLC, Firefox, password manager, maybe a couple of others) and key files, updates again, then clean up, run disk maintenance etc. and take another disk image. Fourth step start using it properly ... It feels to me I did more than this though, unless I'm just remembering the nitty-gritty of each step. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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