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    Reinstalling Windows once you get your laptop. Worth it?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Shirp, Jun 3, 2006.

  1. Shirp

    Shirp Notebook Guru

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    I was going to go ahead an purchase a D820 in the coming weeks. I have Xp Pro on my desktop and have the option to get xp or home with media or no media installed on the laptop. I could save money and just get plain old home with no media and then reinstall xp pro with the disk I have. Is there any major benefit for getting a "with media". I assume that means windows media center?

    There wouldn't be anyproblems doing this right? I've reinstalled windows on my desktop a number of times.

    Thanks.
     
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  2. Unreal

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    The "with media" thing means that they include the backup disk to do a complete reformat if you would ever need to (l think). The laptops from dells small business section already come with nearly no bloatware so theres no reason to reformat on a D820. Although it was a different story for me since l had over 70 processes running on my first bootup.
     
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  3. Shirp

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    Gotcha. Thanks.
     
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    If you want, you could order without the backup CD's and have Dell send them to you afterwards (they usually do it free of charge).

    Also, I don't know if you plan on doing this, but on a side note: If Windows XP Pro CD isn't an OEM Disk from Dell, you'll probably be asked to enter a key when installing it on your laptop. You probably already know this, but using the same key twice on different systems is illegal (unless you have a multiple user/installation license).
     
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