As you already probably know, your Windows 10 upgrade would be to the 64-bit version. This is preferable anyway now for most people.

I'm assuming that, if your diagnosis that your problem is caused by Windows is correct, Windows 10 would likely overwrite enough files to solve it. Of course, this is just an assumption.

Good luck.


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