Various questions about e1505. -Superpi/Formatting/Performance

I saw in one review where a person's inspiron E1505 w/ T7200 and 1GB ram had 1m 02s for calculating 2m digits of Pi.
I have a e1505 w/ T7400, 2Gb of ram and come nowhere close.
I think my score for 2 million digits was something like 1m 45s.
My questions are;

Do the superpi results reflect upon the performance of your system?
How can I get a higher score? - and better performance?
Does it matter which programs you are running?

Will formatting my laptop give me better performance over the stock dell laptop (with removed crapware)?
I still am left with 50-55 processes always running.
I didnt recieve a dell recovery cd or a windows cd, so I think it will be a hassle of getting that stuff from dell as well.

 

also i didnt recieve a driver disc, is this necessary or will i get all the drivers i need from the dell website?

 

you're getting that score because you have a ton of Dell crapware on the system that was preinstalled. most of it the common user will never want or use.

follow the re-formatting guide sticky instructions to get your computer up and running the way it should be.

RANT
seriously...it should be a crime to install that much junk on a computer. doesn't dell realize that some of their returns are because people think their computers are just too slow and they don't realize they can fix it?
/END OF RANT

 

you can get dell drivers from the website, but you need an OS cd to get started

 

Just request the CDs from Dell. Try Dell chat, most people seem to have the best results using chat. As far as superpi is concerned, it should improve after a reformat. I can pull 1:17 on my e1505 with a t2400, so you should easily beat that.