Bloatware & GX740

I bought the GX740-079 and it will be delivered on Tuesday.

I've read it isn't loaded with Bloatware, but are there any programs that you all recommend removing when I receive it?

Also, which updates are most important for me to apply?

1. Windows 7 updates?
2. GPU drivers?
3. vBios? (is that GPU bios?)

Anything else?

 

windows 7 updates will begin sooner or later after you turn on the laptop. The very first thing I did after getting it was to update its vbios, since it is said to fix the heating issue in gx740.

In terms of bloatware, the laptop (for mine) came with microsoft office home and student minus the cd key for it. So unless you have a cd key for the home and student version, you can probably delete it. It contained norton antivirus thing with I think 60 day trial, which I removed since I have my own provided by my university. Also for mine, it had some Arcsoft (or something like this) softwares installed, which I just removed all. Other than these, I don't remember there being a lot of bloatware.

 

Once you boot your machine for the first time, I do recommend removing all sw that comes from OEM.
As for updates, do apply vbios(i guess its a month old, so should come updated), bios and ec firmware updates arent so much required, bt do update gfx drivers.
And yes vbios is the bios for gpu.

 

Turn it on...
Check to make sure it works....
Flash Bios.....
Brick......
RMA.......
There your done.

 

My aren't you pleasant.

Flashed the vBios with nary an issue.

Updated the GPU drivers off the MSI website and it killed Catalyst. My screen resolution switched to 800 x 600 and the max I could switch it to was lilke 1420 x 1000 or something. And Catalyst no longer worked and the driver screen showed ???? for all the information. So I ran the Catalyst update straight from ATI's website and it fixed everything.

Not too much software that screamed "uninstall me." I dumped Nortons and the Office trial, but that was about it.