It is by definition just a copy of the original complete with every file.
Yes, but with the added characteristic of betraying its owner with self-identification.
Well, it's still not a smooth ride. Sometime today I noticed there was no I.E. Sorry, Microsoft Edge. I scooted across and soon discovered there was nothing on the start menu - left click. Right click seemed okay.
MSconfig lead me to the fact it was not booting a 'normal startup' but to my surprise, nor does this PC. 'Selective Startup'. Huh, never noticed that before.
I fiddled for a while and loaded Firefox from one of the partitions' stockpile of downloads. It worked fine. But it was a dirty operating system now and I wanted to start afresh so I did the whole thing again.
It's done a lot of updates so am wondering if the big system in the sky is going to hand out anymore grief to wicked users. Paranoid, Moi?