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    clean vista install on asus g1s-a1

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by daskimaster, Dec 5, 2007.

  1. daskimaster

    daskimaster Notebook Enthusiast

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    just got it. wanna make one partition and no bloatware. i just want best performance. i kno tht once the recovery dvd asks for the driver disk, you just reboot and find the drivers manually from the asus site, but SPEcifically where are the NEEDED drivers. cuz theres so many on the site. i just want a clean computer

    if i want, does just manually unistallin the bloatware still quite effective?
     
    daskimaster, Dec 5, 2007
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    adinu, Dec 5, 2007
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  3. Dylanamus

    Dylanamus Notebook Enthusiast

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    The drivers are usually pretty self-explanatory. Get all the ones you know you need (chipset, ethernet, video, audio, wireless, express card, firewire, bluetooth - and basically any I/O that is listed in the sales features etc).

    At that stage your laptop is fully functional hardware-wise, but you may be missing a few features like battery preservation modes and other keyboard functions unique to the laptop. These drivers will be in the "Utilities" section of the drivers menu.

    To avoid bloatware, just do things a step at a time and check the "add and remove software" section of the control panel after each install and just remove anything you think is bloatware.
     
    Dylanamus, Dec 5, 2007
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  4. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    A Bloatware list is in my Vista guide (check sig).
     
    E.B.E., Dec 6, 2007
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