I wish to reinstall my Win11 but without loosing my programs and data.
Google is full of advice which simply repeats Mycroft's very misleading instructions which claim that you can repair or reinstall without loosing your data, files, or apps. This is SO misleading as they neglect to say you WILL lose all third party software such as my Photoshop, VLC, all my third party utilities, photo processing stuff and tons more. All of which will have to be reinstalled from scratch.
UNLESS
Some clever guru has a way to upgrade, repair or reinstall Win 11?
My Win 11 is running OK, but has odd glitches. I've run scannow which is OK.
Alternatively, can I do a clean install and somehow use a backup to retrieve my old installed programs?
I guess I'm asking the impossible? I understand that the cause of glitches, slow down could be one or more progams I'm currently running so reinstalling windows whilst keeping that software won't achieve anything. I'm just trying to avoid a massive reinstall job!
Google is full of advice which simply repeats Mycroft's very misleading instructions which claim that you can repair or reinstall without loosing your data, files, or apps. This is SO misleading as they neglect to say you WILL lose all third party software such as my Photoshop, VLC, all my third party utilities, photo processing stuff and tons more. All of which will have to be reinstalled from scratch.
UNLESS
Some clever guru has a way to upgrade, repair or reinstall Win 11?
My Win 11 is running OK, but has odd glitches. I've run scannow which is OK.
Alternatively, can I do a clean install and somehow use a backup to retrieve my old installed programs?
I guess I'm asking the impossible? I understand that the cause of glitches, slow down could be one or more progams I'm currently running so reinstalling windows whilst keeping that software won't achieve anything. I'm just trying to avoid a massive reinstall job!
- Windows Build/Version
- Win 11 22H2 latest build etc
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 11
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- home built
- CPU
- i7 4790k
- Motherboard
- asrock z87m extreme 4
- Memory
- 32gb ddr3
- Graphics Card(s)
- GTX1070 8gb