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So I'm an older guy, in my mid 40s and I'm pretty out of touch with tech/computers
Most of my purchases in the last ~2 decades have been from Dell, and I've been very happy. My last purchase was a Windows 7 Desktop that came with 2 discs, 1 of which was the OEM for Windows 7 and the 2nd contained all the drivers.
Has anyone recently purchased a Windows 10 PC from Dell that can confirm they still supply these 2 crucial discs? Really made my life easier throughout the numerous times I had to reformat my rig.
The reason I ask is because I've been looking around and it would seem they may no longer supply these anymore.
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>>171124
You can download the Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft's website and burn it yourself or put it on a flash drive.
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>>171124
yeah all companies now put a revert-to-factory-install partition that has a image of the main hdd partition stored in it and you use a utility/recovery option to restore the partition. no more discs. you can order the install discs from most companies but they don't come cheap. alot of people don't realize thats a recovery partition and delete it to make space but they lose the ability to get a factory fresh install back onto their main partition..
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>>171124
>Has anyone recently purchased a Windows 10 PC from Dell that can confirm they still supply these 2 crucial discs?
They're not "crucial" at all with Windows 10:
- any driver disk will be obsolete the moment it leaves the factory. It's a waste of everyone's time. The only reason Windows 7 needs one is that its builtin drivers for network cards are so few and so crap that there's no way for Windows 7 to get drivers off the internet. Windows 10 doesn't have this problem.
- OEM Windows 10 activates using a product key in your BIOS, so all you do is install it off standard media and it turns itself into an activated OEM version automatically. So you don't need a special Windows disk from your manufacturer anymore.
- Windows 10 gets a service pack every six months, so any disk would be as out-of-date and useless as a driver disk. Fortunately Microsoft provides the free "Windows 10 Media Creation Tool", which downloads and writes a disk/USB for you. It can also generate ISOs for you to multiboot.
The clearest advantage of this is that you can boot a new PC straight from the Windows 10 disk, and never have to deal with the shit that OEMs like Dell and HP shovel onto the OOTB install.
>rig.
You have to be over 18 to post here.
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you'd think that someone who has been using computers for 2 decades would learn how to not download viruses all the time.
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>>171272
From my experience repairing people's PCs, being old enough to have kids pretty much screws you over no matter what you do.
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>>171334
Windows Update, Secunia, Not giving children Administrator accounts.
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