Microsoft is currently rolling out the latest version of Windows 10, the October 2020 Update, worldwide for supported computers. If you haven’t received it yet, this is something that will happen automatically in the next few weeks, or days.
As usual, the Redmond-based firm sends these updates gradually, as errors are corrected. Many of these are derived from certain incompatibilities, hence it is not released for everyone at the same time. But with everything and with it, there are many users who prefer not to wait for all this to arrive automatically. Therefore, what they do is try to force their arrival on the computer by clicking on the Windows Update Search button.
On the other hand, others download Microsoft’s own media creation tool application to update their computers to the latest version of the system. Say that you can get it from this link . These methods are just as valid, since they update Windows to the October 2020 Update, but without touching the rest of the information. By this we mean that the system is updated, but keeping applications and data stored .
However, we still have a third option if the latest version does not arrive automatically, and that is by doing a clean installation of Windows 10 already updated. This will provide us with some interesting advantages over the other methods that we have discussed.
Install Windows 10 October 2020 from scratch
Specifically with this we refer to the possibility of doing a clean installation of the system with the new feature update. For this we can download the corresponding ISO with that updated version, and install it on the PC. Of course, we must not forget to make a backup copy of all our data since with this we will lose everything. But we are also going to find significant advantages over the other two methods.
On the one hand we will have a new Windows 10, like the first day when we installed it for the first time. Therefore its operation should improve substantially to how we had it before. To this we must add that now we can choose to install the applications that we are really going to use and discard the useless ones. In addition, we save the junk files that are stored on the disks and the registry by uninstalling them in a conventional way. In this way we will see that the capacity of the disk units is also greater.
It is also worth mentioning that we are configuring the computer components in Windows just as at the beginning, but in the new version. This can be an improvement when it comes to avoiding possible problems derived from incompatibilities with certain hardware components. And this is also one of the great failures that we can find when updating Windows in a conventional way, so the chances of errors decrease here.
In addition, this way we have the possibility of being able to configure again both the privacy parameters, as the rest of Windows, again, now that we already know it better and have more experience.