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Reinstalling Windows 10 or 11 over itself is an easy and surprisingly effective way to fix all kinds of problems with the OS. Here’s how. Sometimes a Windows installation simply goes off the rails.

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To get started on the task of determining whether files on your system look the way they did when they were first installed, you should take a look at the /var/sadm/install/contents file on your ...