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    removing roxio that came with laptop

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by weogy104, Sep 12, 2007.

  1. weogy104

    weogy104 Notebook Guru

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    ok i recently got a dell vostro 1500, i know its adveertised as having minimal bloatware if this is truely the case id hate to see a normal dell laptop. anyways...
    i was just wondering hot to completely remove all the roxio crap that came with preinstalled as i have tried to old fasioned add/remove programs and it still has lots of crap lurking around, even a system tray icon :p

    thanks
    Richard
     
    weogy104, Sep 12, 2007
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  2. ScanR

    ScanR Notebook Consultant

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    Try to load the roxio disc and check on how to unistall all the softwares there, there should be an option on how to remove that software. Just the menu.
     
    ScanR, Sep 12, 2007
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  3. frazell

    frazell Notebook Deity

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    I always do a format soon as i get it out of the box and i recommend you do the same...
     
    frazell, Sep 12, 2007
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  4. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    What do you use in place of Roxio? I've always removed Roxio as well, but have not looked for Vista replacements yet, so I've left it for now.

    In any case, I've alway had good results manually deleting the directories and registry entries, followed up with a registry cleaner. I installed CCleaner yesterday and it seems to be up to the job.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 12, 2007
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  5. Les

    Les Not associated with NotebookReview in any way

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    Roxio is very proprietary. Even Dell techs will tell you to do a clean reinstall as it leaves so many registry entries and remaining fragments.

    Clean install and Vista/WMP media.
     
    Les, Sep 12, 2007
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