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    What bloatware is on newer HP notebooks??

    Discussion in 'HP' started by prabhg, Feb 12, 2008.

  1. prabhg

    prabhg Notebook Evangelist

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    My notebook still is in production, but I am hearing a lot abt the problem of bloatware eating lot of memory and hard-disk space. This will be my first experience with Vista and HP both, and I might need few sessions with HP rep to solve some issues and I would probably need to run some HP diagnostic tools then, thats why I dont want to go to straight clean vista installation... I read some other threads that talk abt cleaning vista up, but I was wondering what is on hp-installed-vista that needs to be cleared...If you bought your notebook recently, can you plz list the bloatware you found on your machine and what you did you clean this up...
     
    prabhg, Feb 12, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Just get used to the laptop first when you get it so you know how everything works. Especially if your new to Vista. Pretty much anything with the letters HP is bloatware. Uninstalling it wont speed things up much, plus you cant just uninstall the norton stuff that comes built it.

    When i got my special edition not long ago i created the recovery disks & driver backup and went straight for the clean install the same day i got it
     
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    robcope Notebook Evangelist

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    I was able to uninstall the norton crap without any problem. I used CC Cleaner and it went fine and there is no sign of it anywhere. I didn't have to do anything special. My computer is quite a bit faster than before I removed the crap.
     
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  4. BrightRed

    BrightRed Notebook Geek

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    From the HP site itself:

    HP PhotoSmart Essentials
    Muvee AutoProducer Basic Edition 6.x (with 20-day-trial full version)
    Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.x
    Microsoft Works 9.0
    Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
    HP Games Powered by Wild Tangent
    Cyberlink DVD Suite
    Sling Player from Slingbox
    the Sims Life Stories laptop edition
    Slingbox Flash Tour (Desktop icon only)
    Symantec Norton Internet Security 2008 (includes 60 days of complimentary live updates; subscription required to continue receiving updates)
    30-day free trial of VONGO service
    Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Edition 60-day trial

    I'm not sure if different models have different stuff preinstalled, but I would say these are the main ones.
     
    BrightRed, Feb 12, 2008
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