⚛️ The steps I took, the software I installed, and a few things I discovered as I reinstalled Windows 11 on my main machine. ⚛️ My reformat and reinstall After four years of heavy use, including frequent software and hardware changes, it was time for a clean reinstall. Slowdowns, odd mouse behavior, and blue screens, as well as accumulated system “cruft”, prompted this reset. Updates, related links, and more discussion: 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: ✅ Watch next ▶ How to “Reset this PC” to Reinstall Windows ▶ Chapters 0:00 Reformat and Reinstall 1:00 Why it was called for 3:00 Time for a reformat and reinstall 3:40 PC health application and TPM 5:15 Reset versus reset 8:30 Reinstall applications 8:50 Edge 9:50 Applications, round 1 10:45 Tweaks, round 1 11:15 OneDrive backup 12:00 Applications, round 2 16:00 Applications, round 3: Trying to work 17:25 Tweaks, round 3 18:15 Uninstalling 19:00 Applications, round 4 21:00 Tweaks, round 4 ❤️ My best articles: ❤️ My Most Important Article: More Ask Leo! ☑️ to get your questions answered ☑️ to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ for even more! #askleo #reformat #reinstall