It's odd how restoring my computer feels so strange and unexpected.
It's odd how restoring my computer feels so strange and unexpected.
You experienced a significant drop in performance after resetting your PC. Initially running at around 70fps, you saw it jump to 140fps briefly before returning to 70fps. This suggests a temporary issue with file system corruption or disk errors. After cleaning up the boot files and using more space on your SSD, the stability improved. The presence of "Fall guys" in your files might have been a leftover from an old installation that wasn't fully removed. Once resolved, your gaming performance returned to normal.
Restarting the PC doesn’t erase data. You need to power off the USB drive and then reinstall Windows from there, clearing the disk during the process.
I saved the ISO on a USB drive and performed a full system reboot. The Windows desktop was blank except for a trash can icon. When accessing my PC files, it displayed only the programs I downloaded after the reset, but in Windows Defender it showed "old" applications. I can't locate them in my regular files.
You saved the Windows ISO straight to a USB drive? You didn’t use the Windows media creator or Rufus to build a bootable USB? Did you switch your BIOS setting to point the USB stick as the boot device? Just checking to confirm we’re aligned for a clean Windows reset, which would mean a fresh installation.