Windows 10 "refresh" on the HP Mini 110-3700

It was never the fastest of computers but my HP Mini 110 had been running increasingly slowly.

I have taken the free upgrade to Windows 10 from the Windows 7 starter edition it came with and while everything worked it was all a bit slow (or very slow if you were impatient !).

I wanted to clean it out and start again with a cleanish install to limit all the stuff that wanted to run on startup.

My concern was that I would lose the "bundled" Office 2010 Starter Edition (which came with Windows 7) if I did a refresh.

A Google suggested that there was a Click to Run Bootstrapper that would reinstall it.

I decided to give it a go.

At the first attempt the refresh process seemed to get stuck (or perhaps I was impatient).

I had a second attempt and gave it a couple of hours to do its stuff.

Everything seemed to work OK  in Operating Systems terms and it certainly seemed no worse in speed terms and was perhaps a bit better.

Loads of stuff had been removed and I carefully picked a few drivers and programs to put back.

HP offer driver downloads (Windows 7 only) at:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-mini-110-3700-pc-series/5082187/model/5082189

but actually I didn't need any of these, I previously had a full set of working drivers under Windows 10 and those all seemed to survive working although lots of drivers were in the "removed programs" list.

Restoring the Office 2010 Starter Edition was a bit more tricky.

The bootstrap installer " setupconsumerc2rolw.exe " was mildly hard to find

https://windowsten.info/filedata/fetch?id=4179&d=1426944590 seems a source but I used

https://www.technibble.com/forums/threads/get-your-office-2010-starter-edition-download-here.73121/

A very useful post by " Metanis " gave the following:

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/6255-microsoft-office-starter-2010.html

He also correctly points out that if you install this after doing a clean OS installation it won't run (not compatible with this version of windows) until until you install https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2598285

After that my Office 2010 Starter Edition seems to work and any light document editing of spreadsheeting seems to work fine.

All in all it seems better and I won't be installing much more on the machine to attempt to keep it running OK.