re: Recovery Disks
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 8:49 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7132 messages posted)
At the time you were shopping for your current HP PC, other options were available
to you.
For example, you could have purchased an equivalent if not component-level identical
computer from a local PC builder. That builder would have (if an honest one) installed
Windows XP using the systembuilder/OEM CD from Microsoft, which installs only OS-specific
items and leaves out the typical "crapware" [putting aside for the moments about
whether MS applets in Windows are crapware :-)].
Or, you could have purchased a Dell, which comes with its own load of crapware (which
used to be called "shovelware" btw), but the saving grace of the Dell is that it
comes with (or you can order for cheap) an "Operating System Reinstallation CD" which
for all intents and purposes acts just like a real genuine XP CD in that it only
installs OS-related stuff. So upon receipt (or later on) you could reformat and
use the OS CD to do a clean installation and lose the crapware. Maybe other brands
do this as well, I am most familiar with Dells in this regard so I can tell you about
what they do.
However, if your number one buying criterion was price, or you did not do enough
research on the alternatives before buying, well then, it's a little late to be crying
over spilled milk.
The best you can do now is run the Recovery, then after its done open up the Add
or Remove Programs applet, and uninstall unwanted programs. After restarting, weed
out the unwanted stuff in c:\program files and in c:\documents and settings\all users\...
and call it a day.
- Written in response to:
- re: Recovery Disks (suomalainen: Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 6:32 am)
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