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Solve : Formatt and reinstall with out all the windows junk? |
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Answer» Hello everyone, On a top of it, go to "Programs & Features" and uninstall all garbage, you don't need.That alone should be sufficient to get rid of unneeded stuff that will be installed if you use the recovery partition to restore your system to its original configuration. And, if you do this, take a look at your desktop. It may have icons for some of the unneeded stuff; some icons may be nothing more than shortcuts to a WEBSITE to subscribe to some service or buy something. For example, when I bought my Compaq laptop 3 years ago, it had a desktop shortcut to Vonage. But, my laptop also had numerous HP programs that I did not need or want, and I removed them. And, of course, you could explore some cleanup now instead of proceeding with formatting and reinstalling via the recovery partition. By the way, you do not have 2 hard drives in your laptop. You have 1 hard drive which is partitioned and Windows recognizes partitions as separate hard drives. But, again, it's just one physical hard drive. Quote
If you have a Windows CD, you could try using nlite/vlite to remove components/bloatware. Unfortunately this doesn't work with recovery disks. As for formatting, you could do that with any decent USB/Floppy/DVD.CD medium. The Windows 7/Vista cd's themselves come with tools to format hard drives. But without start up disks, I cant think of any other way to remove it unless you do it manually. The closest solution i can think of is start with a fresh factory reset of your laptop, remove all the bloatware, save any windows settings then create a system image through the built in Windows backup utility. |
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