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    HOW do you clean up your brand new dell?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by crazychu, Oct 24, 2007.

  1. crazychu

    crazychu Notebook Consultant

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    Is there a program or a list of things i need to get rid of? I think my dell is going to come with a lot of junk application and programs i really have no need for, anyone else experience this when they first got their dell or inspiron?
     
    crazychu, Oct 24, 2007
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  2. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    A clean windows installation is the only sure way of getting rid of all that junk.
     
    PhoenixFx, Oct 24, 2007
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    B2TheEYo Notebook Deity

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    Believe it or, when my system arrived. Besides diagnostic software which i don't really bother with and lame ass Norton.. there wasn't anything as far as crap-ware on the machine.. Kudos for Dell on that new path their taking.
     
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    Well, there was Google Toolbar, which I removed right away. I later reinstalled from scratch and ended up installing most of the pre-installed apps (the burning program, Quickset, Dell Touchpad) since that allows you to have all the functionality.
     
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  5. crazychu

    crazychu Notebook Consultant

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    Would formatting my computer right away be the best option?
    if so, how do i do it without the vista cd? or is it supposed to come with it... would i have to reinstall all the drivers? or does that come standard with installing vista
     
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    When you get you're system. It will have a recovery partition, that will have all the bloat ware and junk I believe, not sure cuz I just deleted it instantly.

    Just pop in that Vista CD which is pretty much a clean box install.

    Problem solved.
     
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    swarmer, Oct 24, 2007
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  8. Les

    Les Not associated with NotebookReview in any way

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    Take a look at my Clean Install article below. It may help. As well, the tweaking thread after that would assist. You get alot more bloatware than you think. Norton is a terrible program for leaving files that can later slow your system.

    Take a look at your startup file and see whats there...you will be surprised I bet.
     
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    Something that really messed with me was the "Google Sidebar" which replaced the Vista Sidebar. I noticed that it was different, and sure enough...
    I immediately uninstalled Google Desktop and toolbar, which had the Google Sidebar with it, and opened up the Vista sidebar.
     
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