New Asus Laptop-How to remove Bloat ware?

H Everyone,
Newbie here. Thanks in advance for your help. I just got a new Asus K53E-BD4T laptop Intel Core I5 with Windows 7 Home Premium. Am setting it up but don't want all of the bloat ware that comes with it. Any suggestions on the "must remove" items to keep it running speedily?? I've never used an Asus before.Thanks!

 

Use Revo Uninstaller to remove what you don't want.

 

Head to the asus forums and read the bloatware sticky .

 

The only to really remove all of the crap that comes with an OEM pc is to reinstall a fresh copy of windows. The uninstaller programs will remove the majority of crap but still leave pieces and registry keys behind which will still slow down your PC.

Another program to use is PC Decrapifier which removes the typical trial-ware and useless programs that come with new pc's.


If your more advanced then I would recommend a fresh install of windows without all the ASUS crap. Its a time consuming process but the performance is well worth the time i believe.

You need to get your hands on a clean copy of windows which you can get from here.

Make sure you get the right version of windows because the key that came with your laptop will only activate that version only. Get all the drivers from the ASUS website and save them because you will need them after installing windows.

If you decide to do this, know that all your files will be erased unless you save them before hand.

Once windows is installed and you installed all the drivers you need to activate windows by using the key that came with your laptop, usually found on the bottom of the Laptop and looks like this.

Use that key to active windows and your all set.

 

That's not true.

Revo Uninstaller does a more complete job. I've tried both.

Revo Uninstaller removes those extra pieces, directories, registry keys, etc.

Plus, a few extra entries in Windows 7, even if they were left, would not slow down Windows.

 

Revo uninstaller will remove only 32bit programs and not touch any 64bit programs.

Even after you remove all of the crapware and their leftovers the system will still run slow. I did the same thing when i purchased my Asus k53ta and used both revo and PC Decrapifier to remove the bloatware. Still the laptop ran slower than i wanted, reinstalling windows really made the laptop shine and the performance difference was night and day.

 

I really appreciate all of the help on here.
Hopefully I can return the favor.
Thanks to all who responded.

 

Revo Uninstaller removed everything that I wanted removed from my new Dell, all the trialware, limited time apps such as McAfee, unwanted stuff such as Adobe Reader, Cozi, eBay, TrustedID, Skype, Roxio Creator, and more.

Your experience likely has more to do with your particular system and what you left on it. I, and many others, have found that simple uninstalling can result in a Windows 7 system that is fast and responsive.

OP: if you want to do a clean install, be sure to save all the necessary drivers first. If you don't want to bother with a full install, it's likely not needed and you can do well just by uninstalling what you don't want and doing some tweaks to have Windows work the way you want.

 

It is true, I'm not sure why Toronto said it isn't. I can only guess that he is saying that he feels that he has removed the relevant software using third party software in his case.

The only real complete way to remove the junk is a fresh install of windows. You can even gain back a fair few GB by removing the OEM partition. It is worth remembering this is your recovery partition so if you don't have all the software and drivers they will be here.

As Toronto has stated ensure you have all drivers before going ahead and doing this.

 

Plenty of people in these forums, and magazine columnists, found that freshi installation is not necessary if you take the time to fully uninstall the unwanted stuff.

Definitely. I recovered almost 20 GB that was allocated to Dell's OEM partition. But, you don't need to re-install Windows to remove such partitions. Unwanted partitions can be removed before even booting into Windows for the first time, if desired. I deleted Dell's large OEM partition and added some new data partitions, before the first boot of Windows.

 

My argument is, Nowadays windows 7 cn be installed in less than an hour, Why waste time using software.

When its a new machine its no hassle to do a clean install.

This is my point. Re-installing windows is not as much of a task as it appears

 

The Windows installation isn't the issue. For many people, it's time consuming to identify, find and install all the required drivers, especially for a laptop.

I'm not against installing Windows, having done it many times myself. But, it is no longer a necessity and its relative merits versus uninstalling unwanted apps is vastly overstated.