G73 Bloatware

So I am picking up my g73 on Saturday and I was curious what bloatware is installed and what should be taken off? I am sure most of you have done this at some point in time, so a nice little list would be great! thanks!

 

here you go
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=380681

 

don't even bother trying to uninstall everything...do a fresh install from the win 7 disk and then pick what you want from the driver disk.

Trust me it will be faster

 

ASUS has probably the least and most practicle bloatware out there of major companies. It wouldnt take much more than 10-15 minutes for you to uninstall what you dont want.

 

Maybe Asus ROG notebooks...I just bought my dad a mainstream Asus and it was loaded with useless stuff.

 

true...the stuff that's actually asus is not bad, but there is a ton of other bloatware and drivers need updated anyway.

When stock completely finished you are looking at 80gigs being used up, that's ridiculous

 

thanks guys!

 

OK well let me ask you guys this. If I clean install and can then select what to install. What should I install. I have never own a laptop and curious. So far all I really care about is the turbo feature to OC the processor and video card.

 

hi, i dont have an answer to your question but i have a related question. how much will all this bloatware slow my G73 down if i dont unistall it? i could care less about it taking up 100GB of my space, i have 900GB more.

thanks

 

You still have to install at least all of the drivers. Anything else is really up to you.

The speed difference will be noticeable. My suggestion is to uninstall everything you don't use.

 

the first link posted in this thread will give you a good idea of what is necessary and what isn't...and yes iwith everything installed it is a ton slower then without

 

Being new to Windows 7 and having missed the glory that was Vista, there's a lot more stuff to sift through, with many unnecessary extra steps in Windows 7 when compared to WinXP. Getting it to work right, as you know from the other thread, can be difficult and not always intuitive.

My current plan of attack will be starting when the Recovery disc finishes installing Windows 7. At which time when it's asks for the Drivers and Utilities disc, I'm going to pull out the Recovery disc and reboot. Otherwise, with the exception of the ADSM and Net4Switch software, everything else will get installed. From there, and please correct me if I'm wrong, I plan to do the following:

1. Let Windows 7 do it's finalization (ie: ask the questions) and boot into windows.
2. Reboot.
3. Back at the desktop, put the Drivers and Utilities disc in the drive.
4. After the disc autoruns, select only, but all the drivers from the Type column.
5. Install drivers
6. Reboot.
7. Go back to the Drivers and Utilities disc and select the following:

• INF Update Driver
• ATK Package
• Bluetooth Utility
• Intel Turbo Boot Technology Monitor
• Multi-Card Reader
• Power4Gear Hybrid
• FastBoot

The following utilities I might install later:

• LifeFrame3
• Asus Wireless Console3
• Screen Saver
• Asus NBProbe

Everything else on the disc I plan to unchecked/skip. The Advance button at the bottom of the panel toggles between recommended and displaying all options.

Keep in mind that I have not done this yet, but that's the plan.

 

How many people use the smart logon utility? Does it work 100% of the time and how close of a photo of you is a required to break it.

 

To me it's not worth the bytes it takes to install. You could always stick your tongue out and cross your eyes to help increase security, as long as you don't mind looking a little crazy in public.

 

I'll probably give it a go because of the sheer novelty of it. As long as it is responsive though, and i dont have to sit there still for 30 seconds just so it recognises me.

 

Smart logon is only convenient if you're always in a well-lit environment. Even if you set the setting to "least secure", I often have trouble logging in with the webcam. You'll also have to spend a good amount of time to train the program ie. take lots of pictures of yourself before the software can work properly.
IMO, it's not worth the time and effort.

 

Just curious, anyone see anything wrong with the above minimal install?

 

Looks good to me.

 

That is a pretty good minimal install for just about any ROG notebook

 

Thanks for the confirmation, now I can proceed with more confidence.

 

When I installed 7 on my N80, I didn't even bother installing that much stuff. Don't think I put much more on than the chipset drivers, GPU, and...hmm...I think maybe ONE keyboard driver. (But I don't use Wifi, Bluetooth, or the trackpad, and in fact have them all disabled in the BIOS.)

 

Pffff..... what a rebel

j/k

 

I was going to do a clean install but was too lazy so just uninstalled a bunch of stuff. I am still considering doing the clean install but, silly as it is, I like the Windows 7 theme that comes with the default install. There really is a lot of crap installed (along with the desktop link to eBay). How has it gone for those of you doing clean installs?

 

During the time I was having crashing problems I've done serveral. I have the routine down, so much so that I'm in the process of writing a clean install guide.

Keep in mind that some of the stuff that is initially installed is only available from the factory. Even if you let the Recovery and the Driver and Utility discs install everything, it won't put back the factory install. Which IMO is a good thing as there really is a lot of unnecessary stuff.

Of course it depends on what you pick when you re-install, but the Asus theme can be put back.

 

In the other thread, Ken from Gentech is reporting that the new batches of these are NOT shipping with OS restore DVDs, but that it does have software to generate that, I guess. Anyone have experience with that?

 

I believe you are referring to that Asus "AI Recovery" utility (at least I think it's an Asus utility) which prompts you on the 1st boot up of the computer to create a set of Recovery DVD's of the OS.

Note: Most certainly do this but one little thing; it originally asks you to get 5 blank DVD's ready but after the first DVD is processed it changes the info message to have 6 DVD's... why - who knows... but have 6 ready not 5.

 

As Mike said - there is the utility to backup the recovery partition but no recovery DVD containing the Windows 7 setup files. It is a shame. Glad I have a Technet subscription!

 

I believe you still have a right to download and use the same version of windows that came on the PC. So basically if you can find a windows 7 home x64 disc you have the right to install and run that on your laptop

 

Whoa, so the recover discs you're creating just restore the recovery partition, which would then let you restore the OS? That sounds...why the hey don't companies just include the OS CD? I guess we're down to just Dell (And Apple, but that's OS X)