Just find the Windows OS below that you’re planning to install and then click on for visual, step-by-step guides explaining how to install each one. See our Windows 8 installation guide for help if you like to follow along with screenshots. It works very similarly to installing Windows 10. With a clean install, you’ll get that “new computer” feel with Windows 8, without all the junk software. If you’re replacing a previous version of Windows, clean installing Windows 8 is most certainly what you want to do. Here’s a complete tutorial of the Windows 8 clean install process, complete with screenshots and detailed advice along the way. Like with other versions of Windows, the “clean” or “custom” method of installing Windows 7 is the smartest way to go, compared to an “upgrade” install or the less common “parallel” install. This 34-step tutorial will walk you through every individual step of the process. In this short walkthrough from TechTarget, you’ll see how to boot from the install DVD and step through the major sections of this process. Don’t worry that you can’t do this one, however. Yes, there are lots of steps, and thank goodness Microsoft solved some of these tedious things in newer versions of Windows, but if you still need Windows XP, and you’re installing it new, or reinstalling it from scratch, this tutorial will help.
