g73jw owners, did you do a clean install?

to all g73jw owners, did you do a clean install of windows 7 on your machine when you go it? to me it feels like it boots slow, and i know this is because of the amount of unnecessary junk running at startup. i know i could uninstall the bloatware but its not the same.

do you think its worth a clean install? and if i do it wont touch my secondary hdd right?

 

Yup! Made the backup disks and then it was clean install time after that.

 

yes, I did. It is worth it to remove those bloatwares.

Here : http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/468027-complete-walk-through-doing-clean-windows-7-install.html

 

Boots under 25 seconds from Power On...Didn't do a clean install.

Removing all the bloat from C:\ and a few services.msc and msconfigs later it was running beautifully.

The cleaning process took about 20 mins...which is close to the time it takes to install windows. But thats not taking into account the time needed to install all the necessary drivers.

 

I didn't but I am planing too...Don't know why, just planing

 

Yep, did a clean install like the 2nd day after I bought it. Don't see why anyone wouldn't, a fresh start without all the nasty stuff is the way to go.

 

Yes, I did ... because off two reasons:

1. Clean version without any bloatware.
2. I wanted Win 7 Ultimate.

 

nah... too lazy and asus version had some bloatware gone and everything works perfectly.

 

No it is not worth it, an OS is not made to be reinstalled.

 

Reagerdless bitlocker (any one use this?? ), there is no real reason to upgrade to win7 ultimate

 

Nekki, Windows 7 Ultimate allows you to easily change languages, while the other versions do not allow this. While a multilingual user interface may not be needed for everybody, it is certainly useful to people like me... I work in a foreign country.

 

OK ok ok, But i'm talking about real characteristics. You still (as me) can use win7 in englischhh.

 

I can use it, but my students find it confusing.

 

I did not, but I am thinking about it. I have had BSOD issues and have already had to recover from the OEM partition and re-remove the bloatware, so if it happens again, I will.

Does anyone have a good walk-thru of what is safe to remove and what must stay?

Thanks!

 

i got around to doing the clean install a few days ago and im so happy i did. way faster boots, and i got to choose right off the bat on the drivers disk which bloatware i wanted. needless to say not very much of it.
i'd recommended it heavily now

 

I am about to do it, no choice anyway as I am installing an SSD drive. Sadly tho, I have a recovery partition so, no drivers/apps disc. Only the recovery discs to be made but, I dont think there is a way to get on it and select what I want.

Does anyone knows of a link to an ISO of the drivers disk ?

 

see my resource link below

 

All i did was remove bloatware. I was thinking of using my Vista Ultimate but i said nah coz its Vista..plus i didnt feel like redownloading all the drivers.

I do have a question to the pros out there. My laptop came with the Asus Recovery Burner and i know i was supposed to use that prior to making any changes but i didnt have a DVD-R at the time so as i mentioned, all bloatware is gone and ive installed quite a few games...Did i just somehow screw myself by doing this? well, seriously looking into an SSD upgrade and i dont know how to go about this..

DO i just burn a DVDr via Asus recovery burner, install SSD, and then load burned DVD? Will it have all my OS settings as well as removed/kept bloatware? Will it even work coz i dont know my OS key since it came preloaded with my rig. Yeah im a noob but can anyone clarify the exact safe procedures? thanks

 

Everyone is failing to mention the main reason to do reinstall Win7, and thats for clean driver installs. Uninstalling bloatware is easy, but reinstalling new driver updates over older drivers gets messy and could affect performance. I never completely trust registry cleaning apps.

 

Yes, did a complete re-install with Windows 7 Ultimate as soon as I got home and made the restore disks. As far a driver disks go all you need to do is copy a folder from you C: drive that is called something like estaller (? not at home now) to a thumb drive. That has everything you need in it. Them after you install Windows, dump it back on and run the program, select which options you want and your done.

 

Clean Install Here too.. Cuz I wanted to.

 

i didn't do a clean install, so far it runs smooth. Uninstalled some junks only.