Re-install OS or not?

Hi,

as some of you know, i'll be receiving my 1720 tomorrow. I still havent figured out if i should re-install windows vista or just remove the software i dont want. So my question to any of you guys is; is there a lot of performance improvement noticable when you do a re-install? If so, are every drivers included with my notebook (with included with my notebook i mean on a disc) so that i don't get unpleasend suprises.

Oh and another question, is it possible to use the little house button that opens dell media direct (i think) for another application like firefox.


Thanks for the help

 

Greetings from Heidelberg - I am re-installing Vista on my ASUS F3T right now (at work - I'm cheating a little... ). I still haven't loaded any games on Vista on a laptop - but everything else will be noticeably improved. I have used the Vista upgrade DVD on my dv2000, the dv6000 which I just sold, and am installing it now on the F3T. A clean install gets rid of the worst slime ever smeared on a hard-drive - Norton anti-virus. I spent almost two hours this morning (between real work) deleting hundreds of Norton registry entries and I still haven't got them all removed from the original ASUS drive. Both of my other installs booted faster, started SideShow faster, had much less fragmentation and took up less hdd space than the factory installs. Only thing thats a pain is having to call M$ to activate Vista since I haven't downloaded the magical jellybean app to get the original activation code off of any of the systems. Sorry for the long response - and I can't help with the house button question.

 

Thanks a lot! I'll re-install vista too.