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Steps taken to see if existing hardware and applications are compatible with Windows 10:
- First, the user has to check the things for hardware compatibility to re-install Windows 10 Pro.
- In order to identify hardware compatibility, the process and its speed must be checked along with RAM size, the screen display, hard disk space, and graphics card needed for Windows 10.
- Otherwise an automatic check can be performed from the Windows 10 website by clicking on “Check my PC” option. It will check the PC and confirm whether the PC is compatible or not.
- After installing Windows 10 into the system, the compatibility of the incompatible apps can be checked directly by installing the apps...
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