The Windows 10 that was forced on me is so bloated it has no performance and updates will not work - can I get 8?

Anonymous
2018-08-16T17:14:07+00:00

I am using Asus T200A which is a lightweight PC/Tablet

Windows is 10.0.16299 Build 16299

There are too many problems to list

The system has got so slow and bloated with Windows software with less tha a Gig left on my C: drive, that when I want to open a new application, I have to close down the application I am using,  clean everything possible out of system and then sometimes restart (20 minutes +)

Screen rotation has disappeared

The final straw is that for the last few weeks every time I try to restart my PC it tries to install KB4338825

This is the process :-

RESTARTING

after  around  90 seconds    “Getting Windows Ready    Don’t turn off your computer”

after around   10 minutes    “Restarting”

after a few minutes  I can select Windows 10

“Scanning and repairung drive (:c)”

after another 5 minutes

PC restarts

“Getting Windows ready    Don’t turn off you computer”

When Windows starts again

Windows Update states  “Update status     -   Your device is up to date”

BUT  if I select check for updates  I get  -

Updates are available

‘”2018-07 Cumaltive Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x86-based Systems (KB4338825)”

Status: Installing  [    starts at 0   reaches 100%   ]

then  Status: awaiting restart

If I select ‘resart’   then the whole process starts over  -    another 20 minutes or so

Update History reports 0x80073712  - file needed by Windows Update is damaged or missing

Ran Troubleshooter    -  results Potential Windows Update Database error detected

Ran sfc /scannow     -    Windows Protection did not find any integrity violations

:\WINDOWS\system32>DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

Version: 10.0.16299.15

Image Version: 10.0.16299.492

[===========================83.7%================          ]

Error: 0x800f081f

The source files could not be found.

Use the "Source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source location, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=243077.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

and then ……

C:\WINDOWS\system32>DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:C:\RepairSource\Windows /LimitAccess

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

Version: 10.0.16299.15

Image Version: 10.0.16299.492

[===========================83.7%================          ]

Error: 0x800f081f

The source files could not be found.

Use the "Source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source location, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=243077.

The T200A has 32 Gig C: drive, a 500 Gig iwhen attached to base station and any numer of external usb drives from 14 gig t0 10Tb

Even with everything possible moved off the C: drive there is only around 800 Mb to 1.5 Gig left

I have spent too many hours trying to get windows 10 to work on this PC

I would have loaded Linux in preference to this useless system BUT there are programmes I need to run that will only work under windows

Is  there

1)   a way to use another drive for the system

or 2) A light version of windows 10

or 3) a way of deleting all of the bloatware  (X-Box, Microsoft Edge, Grove Music, Maps  etc, etc) to free up space

If not, please give me instructions on how  to return to  Windows 8 that was working perfectly( I was forced onto Windows 10)

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-25T12:12:59+00:00

    No. YOUR money ended with the store. Microsoft already got paid long before you ever saw (let alone bought) the computer. The Manufacturer (Asus, Acer, HP,  Lenovo, Dell, etc) pays Microsoft in order to install Windows on the machines they make. They pay a wholesale price for the OS and the OEM License).

    YOU don't pay Microsoft anything when you purchase the device from the manufacturer. (Or the Retail store...Best Buy, Amazon, Microcenter, whoever.)

    You pay the store what they paid the manufacturer plus a profit for the store.

    Just as the manufacturer collected the cost they paid Microsoft for the OS plus manufacturing costs, plus a profit for putting it all into a box and shipping it to the store.

    ONLY the store gets any of YOUR money.

    And, as it happens, sales to government entities and major corporations world-wide are where Microsoft really makes their money. Not from the individual customer who may (or may not) buy the actual O/S directly from them.

    As it happens, the OP's problem isn't with Microsoft. It's with that cheap 32 bit Chinese Import he bought that is incompatible with modern computing needs.

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  2. Neil D 34,340 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-08-25T11:04:52+00:00

    I don't know answers to your questions other than to return to Windows 8. If the device still has the Asus recovery partition then you can use the process from Asus. If not then you may be able to download a bootable image from Microsoft for Windows 8.1, you will need your licence key I believe.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/home

    Remember both options will wipe all data from the device.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-23T02:42:05+00:00

    Maybe you are just willfully choosing to misunderstand.

    The Windows 8 that came with your machine is not something you purchased from Microsoft, It is something that ASUS purchased from Microsoft and installed on a whole RAFT of different machines all produced at about the same time. Though each copy of Windows is geared to the particular device it is on and cannot be transferred to a different one.

    That is the OEM (Original Equipment MANUFACTURER'S) part of the deal. We as end user's of the individual computer receive a license to USE that copy of Windows on that machine but we do not OWN it. We own the machine, Not the OS.

    And we didn't pay Microsoft anything for it. We paid the computer manufacturer (or, actually, the retail store we bought it from) not Microsoft.

    The Manufacturer paid Microsoft.

    IF you buy a retail copy of Windows FROM Microsoft like, say, from the Microsoft Store:

    THEN you're paying Microsoft.

    As for the upgrade, no, you didn't ask for it but it will soon be the only fully supported version of Windows out there. Windows 8.1 Mainstream Support has already ended.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-22T21:46:56+00:00

    I suspected that

    So if MS can't get my Asus working I will put alternative software onto the Asus and then source a key for Windows 8.1, that I have, according to the license the legal right to use on a single machine, and install it as dual boot with Linux on a power PC

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  5. Neil D 34,340 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-08-22T21:17:56+00:00

    If the licence came with the device then you can't, it lives and dies with the device.

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