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    Bloatware or needed

    Discussion in 'HP' started by tango3065, Oct 2, 2007.

  1. tango3065

    tango3065 Notebook Consultant

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    Can anyone tell me if the items I have highlighted are needed or just more HP crapware?
     

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    I would remove HP easy setup and customer experience
    I think MSCU and ESU are related to windows updates so it's your choice...
     
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    Keep the HDAUDIO one.

    I removed everything that began with "HP" except:
    • HP QuickPlay
    • HP QuickLaunch Buttons

    If you have both BT and WiFi and want to be able to turn them off and on independently, you'll want to keep HP Wireless Assistant.

    BTW, unless the configuration has changed significantly, you can uninstall many of these and still get them back as long as you keep the C:\SWSETUP folder around.
     
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    Okay here is a more detailed list if anyone could tell me what I should move out. BTW I do want to keep the help and support because it does have some helpful tools, also I have heard that if the total care advisor is deleted you will lose your recovery partition so I will keep it also.
     

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    I do not know what that ESU and MSCU are.

    I would keep the HP Quick Launch Buttons, they are what control the little blue lighted buttons at the top of your keyboard.

    I got rid of all the others.

    I cannot believe that a recovery partition is dependent upon Total Care Advisor, but I deleted the HP recovery partition (D: drive) and gave the space to the C: drive anyway, so it hardly mattered to me. I backup my C: drive completely. I would never consider going back to the factory image anyway.
     
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    How do you manage to delete HP Recovery partition from D: drive?
     
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    I used Acronis Disk Director to remove the D: partition and then to add that newly freed and unallocated space to the existing C: drive.
     
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    I've seen somewhere that it may be " Essential System Updates" and " Microsoft System Critical Updates"
     
    John B, Oct 4, 2007
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    The best thing you can do is do a clean install
     
    gridtalker, Oct 4, 2007
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    kekinash Notebook Guru

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    ESU and MSCU are windows vista .msi patches in a exe package. HP install the packages but doesn't the patches (msi) automatically , so you must go to the Program Files and under ESU and MSCU install them manually. Quite stupid from HP. Some msi will tell you they are not for your machine, you can ignore them.
    You can copy the msi from Program files to another place to keep them for future use, and uninstall the ESU and MSCU, that takes quite a lot hard disk space (close to 100 mb). And install the msi from where you keep them one by one, just don't reboot the computer until you finish installing all ( ignore prompts to reboot now)
     
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    That almost makes the sound like you could delete them as you'll get the real ones from Microsoft/Windows update anyway.
     
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    Uhmm, no exactly. Some of them you have to look for them at Microsoft site, because are related to specific problems, so you normally don't get them through Microsoft update.
    Several are specific to laptops only, so there's little insterest for desktop users. That's why you don't get them throught windows update.
     
    kekinash, Oct 4, 2007
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