Big Asus software problems halp

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Hi,
Ok today i had a "clean my laptop day" and i used the system recovery cd that was shipped along with my 1 year old M60J to format the computer and reinstall OS. I have read that you should turn power off and reboot when it have installed OS and asks for the driver cd because if you put it in, it will install lots of bloatware. And i did this.
But now i am plagued with THREE problems.

1. I get a sysprep message greeting me every time i boot up, and a biiig picture with "setup is preparing your computer for first use" every single time. I tried googling how to remove it, but no information is available. My question here is where on earth did i get sysprep from, and if it is in the driver and utility cd shipped by Asus, why on earth don`t they supply any information on how to remove it for us non technician people
I remember i installed some utility from Intel that i did not know what was from the driver cd. Is it there?

2. For some reason i got an Administrator account aswell following this route, with a password. Where did i get that? I have not created any admin account, nor put a password there. How did it suddenly come up? I figured out it is only for me to press Enter when it asks for password, but its annoying to do this every time im going to use the computer after sleeping. And my computer made a Homegroup for me, with a freakin password.

3. I tried activating the Windows 7 right after i was finished with installing all the updates, drivers etc. Now i am greeted with
"The windows 7 home premium product key you typed is invalid for activation". Pardon my language but what the heck??? I got my Asus laptop with Win 7 premium from Gentech 8-9 months ago and it is valid for crying out loud. I have formated my laptop 1 time before in July and i did not face ANY of these problems then.


Any people here who can tell me why all these problems just suddenly popped up and why i got them. I dont want to go through another 4 hours formating, reinstalling OS, drivers, programs, updating new firmware on my Intel SSD etc. Please someone say atleast something

 

Hey there. How did you install Windows 7? Do you have a genuine Windows 7 retail disc, or do you have an OEM disc? If you have an OEM disc then some settings and options will be pre configured.

If it's any help, I too reinstalled 7 on my N61JA using my copy of Windows 7. What I did is after installing the OS and you see the desktop for the first time, I put the Asus drivers disc in and installed only the drivers. You can tick what you want installed. Obviously you would have to install your SSD drivers in there aswell at somestage.

 

I have an OEM disc, or a system recovery disk from Asus. I chose the Delete entire HD option, installed OS, and when it asked for driver disk i turned of my computer. And i turned it on and put in my driver disk and carefully picked what driver and utility i wanted to install.
I actually tried inserting the driver disk when it asked for it the first time, but when it was finished i had TONS of bloatware.

I have no freakin clue how all the other problems got there as well. Administrator with password, invalid windows key etc. Maybe the sysprep lead to another problem and the whole thing escalated???

 

Ok wow. Just an update here after i am now finished with the whole process.

I did the exact thing this time, formated, installed OS and turned of my computer when it asked for driver cd. I rebooted it, and then cmd came up with some sort of Windows program running in a cmd window. Lots of messages came up, like CPU apply etc etc etc. And at the very last second before the laptop restarted again, a message said "Exit audit mode" or something like that. I guess that has to do with the sysprep program, because after my laptop restarted, i got to chose language, time etc, and the "first time booting" message only came up one time, and now it is gone.
And now i have a normal account without password, and best of all my Windows 7 key is valid and i was able to register it. HALLELUJA. Crazy to think about that one utility can screw so much up lol

I remember i started up with installing drivers when the cmd and windows program was running the last time when it all went wrong. I probably screwed the sysprep up when i did that.

So lesson learned here: DO NOT INTERUPT THE SYSPREP AND THE CMD PROCESS WHEN BOOTING UP THE MACHINE FOR THE FIRST TIME.

Cheers