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.

    Getting Rid of Bloatware

    Discussion in 'HP' started by tangch, Jun 7, 2008.

  1. tangch

    tangch Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    72
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    How do I totally get rid of the preinstalled bloatware without having to reinstall Vista on my DV6700t?

    If reinstall is the only method, what must I take heed of in order to keep those important drivers for the webcam, quickplay etc.?
     
    tangch, Jun 7, 2008
    #1
  2. Harper2.0

    Harper2.0 Back from the dead?

    Reputations:
    2,078
    Messages:
    3,108
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    Harper2.0, Jun 7, 2008
    #2
  3. tangch

    tangch Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    72
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    But reinstalling Vista using the recovery disk still won't get rid of the HP bloatware, will it? The bloatware is pre-installed in the recovery disk, isn't it?
     
    tangch, Jun 17, 2008
    #3
  4. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    1,326
    Messages:
    7,137
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Yeah, but the link he posted deals with clean installation using a regular or clean Vista disc. The only other option is to uninstall the unnecessary programs from the system and tidy up any of the junk left behind manually.
     
    miner, Jun 17, 2008
    #4
  5. Envision

    Envision Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    146
    Messages:
    1,129
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Even if you uninstall all the bloatware and then clean the junk afterwards you still won't come close to the performance increase that a clean install will give you. Follow the link that harpreet1988 posted and that will tell you everything you need to know about a clean install.

    Once you do a clean install I recommend downloading a program such as norton ghost or acronis backup exec to make a backup of your system so you can just restore it at any time you want to do another clean install. You can get demos of the programs to make the backups so they'll be free for now.

    Also, make sure you create your recovery disks before you do a clean install. This is very important!!!
     
    Envision, Jun 17, 2008
    #5
  6. 3mguy

    3mguy Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    3mguy, Jun 17, 2008
    #6