What is lost via Clean Install vs Recovery?

I prefer doing a clean install so that I can minimize bloat - prefer clean install in contrast to selectively uninstalling unwanted items because I might find / uninstall certain bloat.

I don't mind having to reinstall drivers (also TVSU helps a ton)

- however with the new Lenovo Enahanced Experience, I am unsure if a clean install will be able to take advantage of the shortened boot times etc.

Are there any other differences between Clean Install and Recovery other than possible loss of EE? Did a couple of searches but didn't find exact comparison re: EE.

 

actually did another search and found a helpful thread -

http://forum.notebookreview.com/len...l-downloaded-drivers-vs-recovery-disks-2.html

seems that EE is lost along with some other Lenovo tweaks

 

My personal experience after doing about 7 clean installs on my x220...

The factory image idles lower and gets me about 2 hours more battery than a clean. You can strip the factory image to pretty much a clean install (with a few additional drivers and tweaks). I'd just do that. I was one that always preferred a clean install on any machine, but the Lenovo image is solid.

 

thanks for that heads up - wow 7 installs

after booting up for the first time, if you delete "bloat" and then create RR disks, will the installing from the RR include or not include the bloat?

 

Lol, yah I messed around with a lot of different configs scratching my head. Luckily it installs super fast via FDD.

I think the R&R will just reset everything back to factory including anything you cleaned off prior. So no, you'd just have to create an acronis image or something like that to achieve what you want.

What I did was just delete the R&R partition. Then fully setup my factory image (delete, uninstall stuff, change setting, install progs, etc) then made an image of that with Acronis. So if I ever had total failure, could always resort back to that. I call that my "Finished Factory Install".