Recent content by JDHinAL

In my very first post, I stated that I had enlisted the help of paid support. Paid support used BloatyNosy and, now without any doubt whatsoever, that is how I ended up with Edge, Chrome, and parts of Win 11 being managed by your organization. It was this experience that led me to try and do...

I used that tut to back up my drivers. It was extremely helpful! I'm sorry but I'm still clueless. How do I make certain Windows' generic and/or installed drivers are replaced by my OEM drivers? In a recent test case, I tried to update a driver installed by Windows using my OEM driver, but...

Soon I will be doing a clean install of Win 11. Based upon my last experience, long ago, none of my specific OEM drivers will be installed. Thus, the drivers in Device Manager might be generic drivers installed by Windows during the clean install. I have my OEM drivers backed up on a USB stick...

My best guess is that you've probably been doing it right and that I'm the one who is misunderstanding the tut! lol No matter how many times I read something, I seem to always misunderstand some nuance. In this instance, I let the tut's use of drive influence my understanding of what to...

Obviously, I've been there and I'm trying my best to get out of that loop this time around. Thanks!

@glasskuter I'm trying to be certain I understand your recommendations and the tut correctly. Delete all partitions on the Drive # (ex: Drive 0) you want to install Windows 11 until that Drive # shows only as one Unallocated Space, select the unallocated space, and click/tap on Next. Select...

It is reassuring to know you agree with my current plan of understanding everyone's recommendations, and from there do a clean install. Thanks!

@Helmut Thank you bunches for your detailed explanation. My take-away is that the table provides general guidance, not hard and fast rules. Thus, I have no reason to be concerned. Awesome! Also helpful: Again, many thanks!

@glasskuter Thank you bunches for the 1, 2 steps! I've learned the hard way that if something isn't done in precisely the right order, then the anticipated action probably won't happen as expected.

As per the Clean Install Windows 11 tut, I checked my WDDM driver. My current version of Win 11 is 22H2, which according to the above info should have WDDM 3.1; however, my version is 3.0. I will be clean installing Win 11 23H2 soon, which should have WDDM 3.2. However, as per the HP software...

@Megahertz I backed up all of my drivers a few days ago. For learning purposes, I used all three methods shown in the tut. Two of the methods gave me exactly the same number of files in each of their driver folders, however, the pnputil Command was minus one file in nearly all of its driver...

@Megahertz I'm trying to wrap my very confused head around Win 11's OneDrive. At the time that my old laptop ceased updating (Win 10 1809), OneDrive was visible in File Explorer's navigation pane... with only my empty Personal Vault visible in it. However, I perpetually remained signed out...

I am editing my previous post for accidentally misspeaking. What actually occurred: ... I decided to do a reinstall of Windows 11 myself using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool, which I thought would get me back to OOBE. After the reinstall, I installed HP Support Assistant and checked for updates...

Oh, what a relief! I did accurately retain something I read here. One itty-bitty confirmation and I'm inspired again to go forth and conquer. Just kidding... I'm still quaking in my shoes! Anyway, I'm returning to reading the whole thread again. Thanks bunches!

I have read sooo much here in the last 24 hours that is totally foreign to me. Perhaps I am totally mistaken about the F6 folder contents being needed during a clean installation. At this point, I really should go back to the beginning of this thread and re-read everything again so as to be...