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This is how you do a clean to almost clean Vista install on a HP, it may also work with other company built computers but I am not sure but I am assuming this works in almost the same way with other companies as setup names may have changed.
First is you do a hp recovery or system recovery, what ever HP calls it in your area, you are NOT doing a MS restore here.
Do a HP system recovery to the same drive letter if you have partitioned the drives, it saves you time, but if you still do a full HP systems recovery it will still work, you will have to reparation the drives through Vista latter, I am using Vista 64 Ultimate and I am not sure if you can partition your drives within other versions of Vista .
Start by doing a HP recovery, this will re-format your drive and start a image install, this will take some time as you know, anywhere from 20 to 30 min maybe more.
When you see FBI on your taskbar at the bottom this is when you spring into action, TIME IS OF THE ESSANCE HERE, you only have about 2 to 3 maybe a little min to do the job here.
When the FBI shows up in your button taskbar, hit your Windows button on you keyboard go to Computer then to your OS hard drive (usually c if not otherwise), then open c and go to the folder SwSetup, inside this folder will be all the software or bloatware to be installed on your computer, now if you should choose this move, go down to your taskbar and close the FBI process, this will not stop the install, it will buy you more time to do what you have to do, the install is still running in the background , what I think the FBI window is doing is its is decompressing the bloatware and other files as if you goto the control panel and systems you may see a couple of drop downs of devices, what it looks like its doing is it is installing the device drivers at that time so don’t be too alarmed, you are now in the SwSetup folder, this is the folder you want, this is where the enemy resides, this is where is determined if you computer will run good or like ****, you can start by opening the folder to see what is in it, you can also tell by the name for example MSworks , Muvee, Norton AV folder will say NTVC or NTCV or something along that line, there is a bunch of folders there full of stuff, now you have to DO THE CHECKING FAST, as soon as you determine you don’t want it, DELETE it, this will goto the recycling bin and cant be installed, REMEMBER ALL THIS MUST BE DONE IN 2 to 3MIN depending on your computer setup, after the 2 to 3 min the computer will reboot, the folders you have deleted will be bypassed by the installer thus not getting installed, after that reboot the FBI will show up on the bottom taskbar again, you will still have some time to go back into the SwSetup folder to delete some more programs but beware on the second FBI reboot, it seems like it is installing the programs from top to bottom, you can still close the FBI window, just do it at the taskbar at the botton, right click and close that will buy you a little more time, my suggestion is to do the bloatware cleaning at the first FBI pass, NOTE YOU MAY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCEDURE 2 OR MORE TIMES TO GET EVERYTHING, you do not have to empty the recycle bin but you can if you have time and the thought that you want it gone, you can do it latter because emptying the recycle bin with all those huge programs will take a while when you can be searching out more useless programs, look for the HP Games folder and delete it as you get rid of the WildTangent process running in the background, many people have said this maybe legal spyware or not, the fact is if companies don’t tell you what it is or tell you its nothing, get rid of it.
Lets do a little recap, remember you may have to do this procedure more then once, I did it 6 times before I called my system clean, the secret is SPEED AND KNOWING WHAT PROGRAMS ARE IN THE SwSetup folder, I have eliminated things like hp health check also known as hphlthchk.exe ( or something like that, the spelling is almost like I listed, DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING THAT HAS hpqwmiex listed, this is needed if you have a webcam on the lid of your laptop or if you have a scanner or something of that sort, like I said you may have to do this procedure a few times to get it right, if you are happy and did not get all you want, just delete it and run a registry clean, this will take some practice, patients’ and time, but the results are spectacular and your system will be more faster, stable and less of a pain in the ass, please post your results and other things you found on this thread, Im not sure if I got everything and it takes people to share results in order to make things run well, if you have any problems, post it and I or somebody else will address it, Im not perfect I just want to help with what I know with what other people know in order to make our computers run well without having companies tell us what we want, it yours and my money, lets make it harder to get.
Thanks all
sickpuppy
Oh by the way I have done extensive research to registry cleaners, I will post later, but here is a clue, stay away from registry cleaning software by going to the site and click on contacts, if the site only has email contact and does not mention where they reside, stay AWAY, do not buy, many different registry cleaners are made by the same place and they do not work and are a fraud.
This is how to do a clean or almost clean install with recovery disk or partition
Discussion in 'HP' started by sickpuppy, Sep 16, 2007.
