This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Windows 11 Insider Beta Build 26220.7859 (KB5077223) for 25H2 adds a Microsoft 365 upgrade option in Settings, plus taskbar and File Explorer fixes.

Managing files is something we do all too often on our PCs; in fact, it's one of the main points of having one in the first place. So a good file manager is an extremely important tool, and on Windows ...

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