Do I really want to reinstall Vista on my HP

Hi all,

My wife has an HP DV6000 with Vista on it from the factory. We have talked about reinstalling Vista to get rid of all the other "junk" to put it nicely. I mentioned this to my brother-in-law and he said we don't want to reinstall Vista because HP puts so much on there to help users. Can anyone clear this up? If we reinstall Vista are we going to loose out on something HP gave us?

Thank you very much

Lucas

 

I've been running a vista clean install without all the hp bloat for a couple of months now and don't miss a single piece of hp software. It's infinitely better without that bloat in my opinion. Not even the unnecessary hp wireless assistant exists on my laptop now.

 

Well, any of the pre-installed HP software can be installed once you do a clean vista install since HP stores all of the installation files in C:/SWSetup of the stock OS install. Just backup that folder and you can then selectively choose and install whatever useful HP software you want.

 

agreed. much of it is bloat but a lot of it is necessary stuff too - ie the software to control the speakers, and some other stuff.

you defnitely dont need the crap like ms works, hp games, and other useless crapola that you will never use in your life. removing that alone saves you half a gig and leaves the registry and file system uncluttered.

 

None of the HP software is actually necessary. The software to control the speakers is not really HP bloat because it is part and parcel with the audio driver. Likewise the cyberlink youcam software isn't really bloat because it's fundamental to the operation of the webcam.