The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    List of pre-installed software and services on XPS M1530?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by basskiddanny, Jul 22, 2008.

  1. basskiddanny

    basskiddanny Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    25
    Messages:
    538
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hey guys,

    My XPS is due on 4th August and in preperation I was wondering could somebody tell me the junk that comes on an XPS?

    Does it have the Dell Network Assistant that used to come on Inspirons? Any other rubbish or a list of processes / services that Dell set to run that I really won't need?

    I'd rather not do a full re-format and clean install if I can avoid it, but depends on how much junk is there.
     
    basskiddanny, Jul 22, 2008
    #1
  2. paper_wastage

    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

    Reputations:
    486
    Messages:
    2,596
    Likes Received:
    24
    Trophy Points:
    56
    you can avoid a full reformat

    mine doesnt come with much junk.... only Roxio got the boot.... MS OFfice trial wasnt installeed.. of course it could change

    Dell Quickset is installed, but i find it to be useful...
     
    paper_wastage, Jul 22, 2008
    #2
  3. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    5,868
    Messages:
    5,889
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    206
    If you want to avoid the reformat, check out Revo Uninstaller and run it with the advanced setting so that you will get rid of the registry files and other residual files associated with the junk. I used it on the Dell I have at work and it cleaned up quite nicely.
     
    atbnet, Jul 22, 2008
    #3
  4. Ttime20

    Ttime20 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    43
    Messages:
    795
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    You should definately download CCleaner ... I've had it on my desktop for over a year and love it ... it does it all.
     
    Ttime20, Jul 23, 2008
    #4