Dv7t quad edition setting up help

Hey everybody! I just recently got my first hp laptop the dv7t quad edition like 5 days ago. I am a newbie when it comes to doing computer and technical stuff. I looked up stuff on this site and the internet but I still had some questions. I hope yall can help me!

Well first of all heres what I want to do:
1) remove bloat ware - I removed some obvious bloat ware like hpgames, norton, and office. I want to know what else is bloatware that I can remove. I don't want useless programs. I want a fast laptop. I was going to take a picture of my screen so I could show you guys what is installed but I dont know how to. next to f12 key is a key that says prt sc which im assuming is print screen but when I click it nothing happens. I even clicked it while clicking fn but nope. So if you guys could tell me how to take a screen shot I can put that up.

after I put that up I want to install rileys touch pad but idk how to.

2) Recovery. I've read everywhere that I should have a recovery. I didn't get a cd or anything from recovery but I looked up and tried to make mine. I went to hp recovery manager and it says I can make a recover only one time. I clicked agree and it gave me choice to insert usb, dvd, or dvdl. I want to make the recover on usb. I have a 500gb external harddrive which I want to put it on. So I plugged it in and the computer recognizes it and i can open its files etc.. but the recovery manager wont and I cant continue from there.

3) I want to install an ssd soon. Right now I have a 750gb 7500rpm hdd. I know the dv7t has 2 slots , and I want to install the ssd there while keeping my 750gb but use it for windows so i have faster load times and etc. I looked up videos on youtube and installing the ssd looks pretty simple. I will be buying ssd and the cable soon ( if you guys could reccommend me a good ssd drive not super expensive though). But what I dont know how to do is like after i install it how to put windows on there and keep my fingerprint scanner working ( i love that thing).

 

Sounds exactly like what I'm going through here is from the little I've read, first from my price budget I don't know about you but after spending over $1000 on this laptop im broke so If i wanted to upgrade to SSD I was looking at the crucial ssd the one that cost like $110, that should be enough to run OS and some programs while you still have your 750gb hard drive installed so you should be ok. Recovery disk I'm sure there is one alredy in the system installed so if your computer went to crap you can have it run the recovery automatically, I did this recently on my mom's computer. you can always make your backup also obviously by USB drive or i believe dvd as well.

BUT that is it, I also wanted to get more information on doing the upgrade to SSD while keeping all of your windows file, sort of just cloning your hard drive to another one, would that be possible? I thought I read some posts saying that it was but is it just as easy as it sounds, clone your hard drive to the SSD and switch them out and voila all good to go? if it is I might consider doing that also even though IM BROKE

 

You probably want to make your recovery disk onto a DVD. It's probably the most durable option. USB sounds really convenient, but I've had one small static spark from walking across a carpet destroy a USB thumbdrive. The recovery manager is probably looking for a USB flash thumbdrive that will be permanently dedicated to forever being your recovery media unless you completely erase/reformat it. Recovery Manager probably won't work with an already formatted, general purpose, spinning-motor type of external USB disk drive.

 

Yea but i didnt have a 15gb or more flash thumbdrive, so I just burned it to dvds like you said and it worked. Same here though its going to take me a while before i have $ to buy the ssd, but just wanted to know how do you copy the windows boot to ssd so programs would run faster.

 

You would have to do a complete re-install, with drivers and such, you can't just drag and drop the Windows files.

 

There's a video on youtube that shows you exactly step by step on how to make a copy of your current windows version to run on your SSD but yes essentially you do pretty much a fresh clean install from scratch, all of the drivers on the computer have to be reinstalled once you boot into windows from your SSD

 

I recently made DVDs on my new DV6TQE using DL DVDs. It fits on two.