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    BestBuy-made recovery discs and crapware

    Discussion in 'HP' started by gtotripower, Jan 13, 2009.

  1. gtotripower

    gtotripower Notebook Guru

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    I have a DV9535nr and I want to do a clean install to get rid of crapware. BestBuy furnished me a set of discs (at no cost unlike some I have read about) but will these contain the crap I want to eliminate? When I try to run the recovery disc feature and make my own from my hard drive it tells me a set has been made (yeah, yeah, ok ok MS/HP) so it looks like BestBuy beat me to it.

    I ordered a set from HP to be on the safe(r) side but have read in this forum that these might not be such a good idea, either... bugs etc...

    My options?

    Thanks in advance...
     
    gtotripower, Jan 13, 2009
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  2. novablade

    novablade Notebook Consultant

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    you could try downloading an untouched copy through bittorrent and putting in the key that came with your computer. The copies I have found in the past come with no added crap just the os.
     
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  3. ElBlufer

    ElBlufer Notebook/NBR Addict

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    But, be very careful where you get the torrent from if you use a torrent. They can also have a ton of crapware/spyware/viruses in them
     
    ElBlufer, Jan 13, 2009
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    gtotripower Notebook Guru

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    I was wondering about that. Also hoping to get some other ideas and plans of attack.

    I'm researching several topics regarding this notebook and various upgardes, etc. Seems every answer I get leads to at least two more quesions. Oh well, if it were easy (and cheap) it wouldn't be any fun, right? :D
     
    gtotripower, Jan 13, 2009
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