Windows 10 question

Red Mosquito

Red Mosquito

Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Team MTBNJ Halter's
TLDR: does your Microsoft account restore your old wallpaper when you reset your computer?

Long version:
I guess I'm starting to get old, because I just cant keep track of how this crap works anymore.

So I reset my windows 10 computer. I think. I wanted to wipe all my data and start from scratch, and I went about it through the options windows gives you. I did this because the computer has a SSD which is not removable (it was so much easier when you could nuke a HDD and start fresh with a Windows disk....).

Anyway, something got fubared in the process and I would up doing a fresh install with a bootable thumb drive. However, when all was said and done my old wallpaper reappeared. Is this restored from my Microsoft account? Or is there some leftover data hanging around? Nothing else seems to have come back from the dead...
 
Norm said:
$20
Fire

/story
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For some reason this is reminding me of the end of spring semester my freshman year. We decided to play basebook, which is exactly what it sounds like. Pitch a text book and hit it with a bat. We then proceeded to burn the aftermath. No one paid $20, but much fun was had.
 
i want my 5 points for answering a question.
so i think that apple works like this, so i'm not sure.
 
i refused to link an account to microsuck, but i believe it syncs (backs up) alot of stuff by default (documents and all if you have the right stuff set up) so i would be surprised if it didnt sync your bg over.


EDIT:

quick google search confirmed, your microsuck account syncs background images

The first settings all are fairly self-explanatory. The “Theme” setting will sync your color and background choices, meaning that if you want each of your Windows 10 installations to have their own, this needs to be off.
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from here https://www.howtogeek.com/222110/understanding-the-new-sync-settings-in-windows-10/
 
shrpshtr325 said:
EDIT:

quick google search confirmed, your microsuck account syncs background images
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The magic phrase must have eluded me when I tried, thanks for this! I still think the $20 fire is a good choice here, this thing is a POS. I do not recommend Asus hardware!
 
Will it run Ubuntu? if so that was the fix to Windows 10 I used on my work HP desktop.
Although the fire does sound like a permanent fix.
 
It sounds like you ran a repair option of Windows instead of the full wipe / install.

Did you run a full disk format before you kicked off the Win 10 install?
 
mike_243 said:
Will it run Ubuntu? if so that was the fix to Windows 10 I used on my work HP desktop.
Although the fire does sound like a permanent fix.
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I second this, if you dont need any Windows specific software go linux (ubuntu for first timers). I run linux on my desktop as my primary OS (arch specifically) and i havent had any problems with it not related to hardware failures. I keep windows around solely for simracing at this point.
 
I recommend Linux Mint for beginners. Looks almost exactly like Windows, does a lot of under the hood things through the user interface, does a lot of automatic recognition of hardware, etc., has auto update, the UI is intuitive and makes a lot of sense. It's not as convoluted as some other distros.
 
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