Is there a step by step thread on cleaning-up Vista on HP

Is there a step by step thread on cleaning-up Vista on HP laptop.

Stuff that should stay/go

Thanks!

Rusty

 

Take a look at the OS forum for Vista tweaks. As far as what should stay and what should go, it's basically what you need/use. If you don't ever use something, what's the point of keeping it? So just uninstall it.

 

You can try this: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=120228
It tells you how to do a clean Vista install...even better than cleaning up the crapified Vista that is the default. Or even better, http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=165319 , which tells you how to install XP on HP laptops.

 

Cleaning-up is what I'm looking for.

 

My tweaking thread may help. I also just included a new section on 'Regaining Valuable Disk Space'.

Its below my sig block.

 

Delete/uninstall anything with the letters HP

 

Maybe this will help: http://www.yorkspace.com/pc-de-crapifier/
Don't know if it runs on Vista...screenshot is of it in XP.

 

That program looks old. Besides it works in a way that it only uninstalls known bloatware, and if it isn't up to date then it won't recognize the new software as bloatware.

Kinda looks like a crappy program to me.

Edit: The program does work with vista.

 

Well, I downloaded the program just to see how it is.

And it didn't find any crapware on my clean installed piece. lol

Now I'm safe from the "machine eating crapware"

 

Search on HP BLOATWARE

 

The latest version is available at http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/...

If someone installed and used it, please tell if its good at removing bloatware from HP notebooks.... Mine vista notebook is still being built, so cant test it myself....

 

I remember using that but it did not find that much. I also used and still use CCleaner that has a bunch of nice tools and a registry cleaner to clean up stray files after uninstalls.

My system runs really fast now and I reduced the boot time in almost half by doing the following:

Uninstalling applications.. I used the symantec removable tool to clean out the norton AV which is horrible.. Don't use the regular uninstall for that. I did and lost my internet connection. Had to do a system restore and use the removable tool to fix that. Vongo was the real culprit. A HP tech remotely took over my system and dived into the registry and deleted a ton of lines to kill that resurrecting pile of crap. USe decraptifier and CCleaner after your done uninstalling.

Go to the startup folder. Type msconfig on searh.. you can disable much the startup folders. I use Kapersky AV spyware software and did not like Vista defender. I did not care for defender and it generated too many popup windows to my liking. Kapersky is so much better then MS defender so I disabled defender.

Type services.msc at search.. this is the hard part. Vista has a ton of services that suck up system resources. Many of these hardly anyone uses.. Others are more user specific. Do a search on vista tweaking and vista services. You will find guides on what each of these services do. Its a slow process but I spend some time disabling many of these and my system performance is drastically faster. I also keep some HP stuff like HP advisor but I turned them off from loading and taking system resources. I can still manually load them.

After tweaking, vista loads about 35 percent of my 2 gigs of memory when I do a full boot. From the factory, it took almost 50 percent. Boot times went from over 90 seconds to just over 45 seconds.

The only real problems I had with tweaking was the norton and Vongo. Vongo, was no doubt the worst pile of crap that HP put on.