How to Start a Clean Boot in Windows 10

Your computer is acting weird. You scanned for malware, rebooted the system, and ran a disk check to resolve errors, but nothing did the trick. Instead, it’s still buggy, and you can’t find the cause.

In the most extreme cases, power users turn to full Windows reinstalls, thinking that the operating system is to blame for the problems they come across. Others try to remove and install their apps once again, in an attempt to figure out if they are the culprit or not.

Despite this struggle, however, there’s a much easier way to diagnose software issues and discover what’s causing your system performance problems. It’s called a clean boot and comes down to booting Windows using only the critical drivers and services needed to run, without any other files that could be causing the errors. As Microsoft puts it:

“A clean boot is performed to start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This helps eliminate software conflicts that occur when you ... (read more)

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