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A reader email this week has me thinking about Microsoft's Signature PC program and whether this is still a recommended source for clean PCs.

Well, this is a welcome development. That Refresh Windows tool I discussed yesterday will be available from within Windows 10 going forward and will let users remove all of the crapware that comes with a new PC. Now that's progress.

The promise of the Windows 7 Convenience Rollup is that it will dramatically speed the process of clean installing and then updating a Windows 7 PC. And it does. But Windows 7 updating is still very much broken.

It's time to take a look at how you can have the best and most error-free Windows 10 experience possible, even when you buy a new PC with crapware.