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    Advice needed on new purchase

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by rangerc10, Dec 8, 2016.

  1. rangerc10

    rangerc10 Newbie

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    Greetings all:

    I am hoping to get some advice/direction with my new AW laptop AW17R4-4554SLV purchased at BB.

    Im looking to remove as much bloatware/drivers/software etc from the machine before gaming. I have a MBP to use for all else, so I intend to remove any unnecessary Microsoft software as well, such as Office360/OneDrive.

    Could anyone tell me what I can safely remove to make things run as clean as possible. I read somewhere, and I cant recall, that I could remove the AW graphics driver because the machine has the Nvidia 1070 w/driver installed?

    Pardon my ignorance but I haven't had a WIndows machine since XP so I really feel a bit lost.....

    My thanks!

    Admin -- please move thread if I posted in wrong location
     
    rangerc10, Dec 8, 2016
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  2. ThatOldGuy

    ThatOldGuy Notebook Virtuoso

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    Best way is a clean install of the OS, but a newbee can mess up drivers that way

    If you are on an SSD, disabling the extra stuff you don't want on startup should be enough.

    Hit CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to bring up task manager. The fourth tab should be "Startup". It will have a list of programs that launch when you start your computer.

    Disable:
    MicrosoftOneDrive
    KillerNetworkManager software
    Itunes extra crap if you installed Itunes
    Creative UpdReg
    Nvidia Capture Server Proxy
    365 "buy me crap"
    ... Anything else that isn't nessisary
     
    ThatOldGuy, Dec 8, 2016
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