Vista and HP Restoration Dvds

I just recently bought a DV6485se (which is beautiful btw) and as I'm sure many of you have dealt with... my system came with soooo much bloatware and I honesty didn't want/needed. I'm going to order HP Restoration DVDs from HP next week for my system so I clean out all the junk that came on it. I'm aware I could make my own DVDs but I'd just rather get one from them. Now I'm pretty advanced when it comes to computers but I just can't seem to adapt to Vista... I'm getting terrible Wireless connection speeds (ie... 10 to 40kbps) on a network that should give me 2mbps or more with ease). I just wanna start over from scratch and get a grip on Vista. Now my questions are...

1. When my DVDs arrive... will I be able to just start over without problem?... is there a catch to doing this?

2. What will be missing (that I could possibly need/miss) from starting over with the DVDs?

3. My system came with Vista Home Premium preinstalled... when I restore with the DVDs.... I'll be starting over with Vista Home Premium right? I won't have to buy any additional software will I? Cause I'd find that to be really inconvenient.

I'm hoping to find a solution to my unsteady internet speed but I'm gonna wait until I get my DVDs so I don't have to worry about not having anything to fall back on incase I edit/disable/delete something that shouldn't have been. I've been on this site for nearly 2 hours and found some great advice on this issue but sadly none of them have worked for me so I'm just gonna hope I stumble accross something on here or on the web that solves the issue.

Any answers to my questions will be appreciated ;-)

 

The restore DVD's that you order are the same that you burn. They all have bloatware on them. Read the stickies if you want to remove bloatware.

 

The restore DVD's that HP is selling is exactly the same as the ones you can burn yourself. They will contain all the junk software included with the system. Essentially they will put your system back to factory state. The restore DVD you burn do the same as well.

The best option would be to borrow a Vista DVD and do a clean install. There are several guides on the forum which should help you do this. This will give you the clean install which the HP restore DVD's wont.

 

So the only way I could get a truly clean vista is to buy or borrow a Vista Home Premium DVD? Well, I know no one with the dvds so I guess my only choice is to buy Vista because it would be pointless to use the Restoration DVDs if it'll just reinstall the junkware and crap I don't need. What's this Vista Activation thing I'm hearing about...?

 

No.. don't waist $100. Did u see the re installation guide sticky. You can get an upgrade disc for $7 bucks at compusa, and use that to install vista w/out bloatware.

 

Well, I just tried to burn my own restoration dvds. I went to Start>Programs>Recover Manager>Recovery Disk Creation and a few windows flashed and it starting saying it was "Creating Files" but since my D drive was almost full already (with the original restoration files) it popped up moments later that my drive was full so I cancelled the process and now it says my D drive is less than half full.... what happened? Did the original stuff that was in the drive delete itself or something? Because it was much more full than that in the beginning.

 

did you even read the guide??? make your discs on to dvd's,(the e drive in all recent hp laptops). Ur gonna want to get that anytime upgrade disc for 6 bucks at compusa. I honestly don't think vista would reduce your network speeds that drastically, I've zero problems with networking since adopting vista, all that may vary person to person. verify that there's nothing wrong with you hardware. also btw, unless if you're fooling with the d drive (recovery hard disk image from hp), then I would find it detrimental cost wise to buy restore discs.