m1530 fresh install needed?

This is just in preparation for if my much-delayed laptop ever ends up getting here.

I know there's a lot of hubbub around these forums about installing Vista fresh, but in my experience with a lot of the recent Dell notebooks (xps in particular), there's not a big problem with bloatware. When I get mine, I figure I'll just go through the add/remove programs and uninstall the few trials they put on, probably run registry cleaners and that'll be that. I don't really want to go through the hassle of finding drivers for things all over again.

Do any of you strongly disagree, and why? I am kind of a purist when it comes to my computer, I'm one of those minimalist icons-on-the-desktop types who runs xp in classic appearance mode, but I've never really come to the point where I needed to reformat and install the OS. Is it different with Vista for some reason?

 

No, i was going to reformat mine with a fresh copy, but nothing much is needed to uninstall, a part from norton, dell support and other dell related stuff.

Also you have Dell Docks, which is pretty nice, like iDock except much better, keep the desktop super clean

 

I think it all comes down to the user. When I received mine, I nuked Vista and installed my own copy. Again, that's just me. I have previously used a little program that removes alot of the bloatware from fresh systems. Handy little thing that can be run from a usb drive.

 

i always do a fresh install. you can just uninstall bloteware but might not get rid of everthing hidden file ect ect.

 

I definately agree with bikerboy. You'll never be able to remove everything, especially if norton was installed on the system.

 

I agree with the majority. I don't know if I got a performance increase or anything but I love the fact that now I know exactly whats on my notebook.

 

i did a clean install and it was quite easy....and if youre going to do a clean install...you might as well put 64bit on it

 

why a 64bit?? Which is the difference???

 

64bit allows for the full use of 4gb of ram......32bit (comes on your dell) can only use 3.3-3.5

 

So...it suppose to work better right???

 

Honestly if you don't know what it is and what the differences are, you odds are excellent you don't need it.

 

With the M1530 there's not that much extra on it. It's very popular for most posters to present the clean install as a near necessity, but in this case it isn't. I usually do it after a few days on any new system, just because I want to. And if you want to do it, then by all means have at it. But really it'll still be fine if you just want to run on the original M1530 config. It's not overloaded with garbage like say, an HP.

 

I got slower startup times after reformatting a XPS M1530, so it really isn't always faster. Of course if you want 64-bit windows... you'll have to reformat and everything.

 

Could that just be because of Vista's nifty optimization features kicking in at first?