In this screenshot-gallery I will show the process of doing a clean install of Windows 8. The process was done in a virtual machine on my desktop, and thus took longer than if I had done it on a real machine. I did a clean install on my sons laptop earlier today, and that process took approximately 15 minutes.
- When bootting from the USB-key you will soon see the Windows 8 logo for the first time
- FIrst you will have to enter regional and keyboard settings
- Being a norwegian I chose Norwegian 😉
- Time to hit that Install now button
- Setup is starting...
- No more 30 days grace period. You have to enter a key to continue
- You then read the EULA carefully, and accepts
- Upgrade or custom (clean) install. I chose the latter
- And could then choose where to put it.
- A familiar screen appears
- And this will take a little while
- Almost there
- Time for a reboot...
- The Windows logo appears again. You will get used to that spinning circle
- Windows is getting the devices ready
- A surprisingly fast process
- Time for some basic personalization
- Express or custom settings? I chose the first
- Time to sign in to my computer with a Windows ID
- Of course it has to check for my account
- Then it wants my password
- and then it starts the process of adding security info
- Having done this previously on other computers it was already filled in (blanked out here)
- Then it creates the account on the machine
- Finalizing my settings. One might think that it is almost done?
- While finishing up, you are shown an animation on how to get to the Charms-bar
- Unsure whether that is enough of an upgrade training...
- Getting the PC ready... Ok... Finished soon?
- Then it informs me that it is installing apps...
- While it gently asks me not to turn off the PC the screen continually changes it background color
- Now it has to be finished soon... Right?
- Ok... Almost there...
- Yes! Let's start!
- And we can finally see the Startscreen 😀 On my laptop the whole process took approx 15 minutes.
- The animation worked - the Charms-bar lit up!