Uninstalling OEM crap

I want to uninstall all this garbage Toshiba thought I needed when it installed Windows on my machine. The problem is, I don't know what's safe to uninstall and what Windows needs.

All I use this machine for is Web surfing, email, IMing, music and playing UT2004 (when it lets me). Would someone with more knowledge than I possess be willing to look at the below screencap and tell me which programs are OK to get rid of?



Thank you.

 

Hi.

try this

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/home

regards

John.

 

Thank you for the link. I've downloaded the program. I've read that PC Decrapifier doesn't always work well on Toshiba's. Is that problem resolved in the 1.9.1 release?

Thank you.

addendum: I ran the Decrapifier. It only found a few things, but not the Toshiba stuff. Does that mean that I should leave the Toshiba utilities installed?

 

I would leave most of them installed and use spy bot S&D to stop the annoying ones from starting at startup that way you need the ram and cpu back and the "helpful utilities" are there if you need them. As an added bonus spy bot normally gives you advice about what each program does and whether it is needed to run windows properly.

 

Switch - seems like your audio, correct me if I'm wrong, keep unless you are deaf/don't like sound.
Configfree - I believe this is how you can change the BIOS through Windows (requires restart, no different than just going through BIOS).
Disc Creator - if you already made recovery discs you don't need this.
DVD Player - I find WMP is better.
Extended Tiles - Just gives a couple of extra options in Windows Mobility Center, can be removed safely.
Flash Card - if you don't use them, remove.
Game Console/Media Center Game Console - do you care about any of the games it includes, if so, you can consider keeping it.
Hardware Setup - can be removed.
Music - WMP is perfectly fine, don't need it.
SD Utilities - if you use SDs, keep it.
Modem - if you use dialup, keep it otherwise remove.
Software Upgrades - likely just updates each of these programs, can remove if you don't want/need automated updating.
Speech (all 3) - need text to speech or vice versa? If not, remove.
Supervisor Password - forces you to enter a password to modify BIOS or boot?(not sure about this one). Not really a problem to remove since there isn't anything that can really get messed up in a locked down BIOS.

 

ConfigFree is for wifi, NOT bios. I removed it on mine and it was fine. Its from intel I think