How much improvement with clean install to remove bloatware?

Hi,
I was going to post this on the bloatware removal sticky, but there are already 195 pages there and I have no idea if anyone will care to look.

So,
I just got my new XPS 1530 out of the box and I was considering doing the clean install. I went through and read quite a few pages of this thread, but I still have one question.

How much bloatware are we talking about? I mean, I could uninstall all that crap trial versions manually. Then what's left?
Can I also clean the languages and registry manually?

How much hard drive space or performance does it improve with the clean install? Against just doing manual uninstalls?

Thanks so much

 

its worth doing the clean install, do not waste your time doing manual uninstalls. I waited a year to do mine and I wish I did it right out of the box.

 

In my opinion, do a clean install if you really want to. Maybe you'd like to partition the drive differently, or perhaps you just want the satisfaction of configuring it yourself from scratch, or maybe you want x64. No problem. Have at it.

But don't do it just because of "bloatware." Honestly, the M1530 doesn't arrive with that much. Uninstall what you don't want and move on. The speed difference you'd notice between the stock install and a clean install is negligible. It's not worth the bother unless it's something that you want to do anyway.

 

What kind of change did you notice?

Thanks

 

Yeah it is definitely worth the time to do a fresh install. My Studio 15 just came today, and while it sucks to have to reinstall, it is worth it over the long run.

 

It is a ++++ to use Les's guide and do the Clean Install....

His guide(s) are easy to follow, and I think you would really benefit if you did the Clean Install....

Up to you, though!


Cin

 

Overall better performance. I was surprised at the difference.

 

My computer was constantly freezing even brand new and has been great since I did a clean install. My only problem is that the laptop wont go to sleep now...anyone else have this problem?

 

It definitely makes a difference.

How much? I'm not quite sure how to measure, nor answer that.

 

Dell had the least amount of bloatware I have seen to date. But still a clean install is required on all notebooks IMHO. Woke my vostro up something fierce.

 

Dell has come a long way with reducing the junkware in their notebooks. Even more your Vostro is a business product so it should have come with little to none.

 

It still had a decent amount but by far alot less then my HP and dont even get me started on my old acer 5672. That laptop came with xp home SP2 on a fat 32 file structure and almost 100 running processes from the factory. I literally used 85%+ of my ram just idling after the first boot up, and the best you could get after a full clean up was 55-65 processes and 600MB of ram usage not to mention the random CPU usage. After a fresh install of xp pro and the dual core patch it was like I ordered a totally different rig.

 

I have been seeing a lot of people reporting on having sleep/hibernate issues after doing a clean install. Does this problem happen very often? And is there a solution?

Thanks

 

I had to run a command in virtual dos that took literally 5 sec and I have it working perfectly.

How to do this:

1.) Click start
2.) type: "cmd" (no quotation marks) in the search box
3.) type: powercfg /hibernate on
4.) hit enter and close the virtual dos app

 

I would back up the D: drive (dell partition) first. That way, if something goes wrong you will still be able to recover that data and use it to get yourself running. I personally have not reformatted my comp yet, only because I am still in my warranty period and just flat out don't feel like messing with it. I am running pretty tight so I will wait until I start to notice performance lagging.