The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    6860fx: Clean Install?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by e7s, Jun 22, 2008.

  1. e7s

    e7s Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Looking to do a clean install on my 6860fx, I have the Gateway OS disk, I also have a copy of Vista 64-bit Ultimate. Question being, is the Gateway OS disk full of bloatware? I can definitely use my Ultimate disk instead, but I would like to keep it for a future build i'm currently working on. But I only want to use Gateway's OS disk if it's going to actually give me a clean OS install, only Vista, not all the other junk.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    e7s, Jun 22, 2008
    #1
  2. dtwn

    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

    Reputations:
    2,431
    Messages:
    7,996
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    206
    The OS disk is clean.
     
    dtwn, Jun 22, 2008
    #2
  3. Jstn7477

    Jstn7477 Sam I Am

    Reputations:
    213
    Messages:
    780
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Any restore disk for any brand of PC contains bloatware. Use the Ultimate disk if you don't want the bloatware, but then you wouldn't be able to use it on your future build and it may or may not lack a few drivers (like, say, the webcam) but I am sure that you can find those on Gateway's website.

    -J.B.
     
    Jstn7477, Jun 22, 2008
    #3
  4. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

    Reputations:
    385
    Messages:
    2,662
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    It's the restoration disc that has bloatwares,not the OS disc.
     
    The_Observer, Jun 22, 2008
    #4
  5. Johnksss

    Johnksss .

    Reputations:
    11,536
    Messages:
    19,465
    Likes Received:
    12,863
    Trophy Points:
    931
    the p series really doesn't come with that much bloat ware to begin with... if you uninstall norton, bigfix, and like 2 other programs. it runs fine. i clocked a 3dmark score of 10600 and it played games fine and load times are basically the same as now. the real bloat ware comes when we start installing our own stuff...lol
     
    Johnksss, Jun 23, 2008
    #5
  6. Rasu

    Rasu Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    24
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Rasu, Jun 23, 2008
    #6
  7. Lakjin

    Lakjin Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    313
    Messages:
    1,939
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Is that a "system restore" disc or an OS disc that came with your gateway? because i know mine came with a 32 bit vista OS disc that did a clean install, but other people have told me their gateway came with a system restore disc.

    if its really a OS disc it will be clean install.
    if its a system restore/backup disc it will have bloatware.
     
    Lakjin, Jun 23, 2008
    #7