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    Removing entries from Acer Welcome Centre (like Norton, MS Office upgrade)

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by alanmzifa, Jun 22, 2008.

  1. alanmzifa

    alanmzifa Newbie

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    Hi, after rebuilding my laptop from the restore partition (necessitated by problems, erecovery becoming non-functional) I've spent today uninstalling bloatware and putting on preferred software.

    I previously had been able to remove the entries that appear in the Welcome Centre but can't find the link to the instructions that I used to do this.

    Is anyone aware of how I can do this again?

    Thanks.
     
    alanmzifa, Jun 22, 2008
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    alanmzifa Newbie

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  3. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    well done :D
    is all working ok ?
     
    hoggie, Jul 2, 2008
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    ATG 2x4 Super Moderator

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    I just removed the Welcome Center from startup.it's annoying :)
     
    ATG, Jul 2, 2008
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  5. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    i just removed all the 158mb of it, utter junk
     
    hoggie, Jul 2, 2008
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    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    go hoggie....

    i even got rid of my recovery partition.... but i'm a special case :eek:
     
    bigozone, Jul 2, 2008
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    I did almost the same day I got my laptop.. :)
     
    ATG, Jul 2, 2008
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    Hoggie, haven't had time to attempt it again, been busy today with work, but intend to do some tweaking soon.
    Never thought about removing the whole thing. Is that straightforward and is there anything removed by doing that that I might want to keep?
     
    alanmzifa, Jul 2, 2008
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