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    X200, what are the blotwares I can remove?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jhin82, Oct 28, 2008.

  1. jhin82

    jhin82 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am supposed to receive my x200 today (according to UPS tracking). What are the blotwares that I can remove? Are there many? I am planning on making backup disks using the vista after removing all the blotwares and installing Office 2007 since the license only allow me to install on 3 different PCs.
     
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    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    There is not that much bloatware preinstalled. The only non Thinkvantage software that really comes installed is Acrobat Reader (I removed this and put on foxit). There are installers for Norton AV, Office 2007 60 day trial, Intervideo WinDVD and a few others (mostly in the SWTools/SWShare folers). You can remove some of the Thinkvantage tools if you like, although I would definitely hold on to power manager, Access Connections, and Presentation Director (They are all vastly superior to the default Windows ones if you need to run multiple profiles). Of course, the biggest piece of Bloatware is actually Vista and its array of bundled tools/services. I wasn't able to get it below 20 GB of hard drive or 1GB of RAM usage no matter how hard I tried (it runs fine on the x200 despite this).
     
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    jhin82 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you. Can't wait.
     
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    thomasg_gpm Notebook Guru

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    There are some gigabytes of bloat, called windows. Remove that and most problems are gone :p
     
    thomasg_gpm, Oct 28, 2008
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