anyway to remove all the Acer bloatware?

just got a new Acer 6530 laptop and it has SOOO much bloatware, a lot of things that i don't even need. I like how Dell had like zero bloatware. i like Acer's program that backups the whole system though. Does Vista have something like that?

Should i delete all the programs from Control Panel or is there a way for me to install a version of Vista (downloaded copy from a torrent site) and then use the key provided from the Acer laptop so I know it'll only install Vista?

 

Well you can remove everything in the control panel but generally it'll leave some traces of itself. Or you can get a copy of vista and use the key you have on the bottom of the laptop and do a clean install of that (erase everything), but if you get vista make sure its an OEM version or that key wont work...im not sure if you can still make an OEM version out of a retail disc with vista. A third option is if you have a windows 7 RC key and just use that...that's what I'm doing til August of next year

 

Fdisk is your friend =)

 

Hi SSX4life,
I read your review for the Aspire5672(even though it was old),it was absolutely wonderful and very important informations included. Thanks for that post and looking forward to many more like that.

 

Use msconfig (just type it in run) and then just disable startup of any acer programs you dont want.

This was you can still run them later if they actually become important to you.

 

No problem A fresh start to a PC does wonders for all systems.... even brand new stuff.

I'm going to have a full walk though on how I suggest people reinstall windows xp later... perhaps when I get some down time later this month.

If you need any help / suggestions on how to remove bloatware other than disable it let me know (by remove I mean reinstall the OS).

 

You can generally remove the bloatware through Control Panel for the most part.
Uninstall/Remove absolutely everything you don't think you will need, and also utilizing msconfig or a program such as CCleaner or TuneUP utilities, remove start entries as well (I only has 2 or 3 in total which I need).

After that, clean up the registry with Ccleaner (just to be on the safe side) and also try defragmenting the hard drive along with the boot files (separately of course).

That's for removing the software you don't need while retaining the OS you got in the first place.

Another option (as it was already mentioned) is of course a full format which will result in a fresh install.
This is something that I personally used whenever I bought a new laptop ... but when working on other people's computers, I preferred to just uninstall all of the programs I knew they won't be using, cleaned up the registry, and optimized the hard drive.
It was enough to speed up their system ... which mostly resulted from removal of numerous start entries and replacing resource hungry applications with those that did the same thing far better while being low on resource requirements ... unless they explicitly stated they wanted a clean OS (in which case I just download the necessary drivers to be prepped and that's it).