re: Recovery Disks
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 9:02 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by suomalainen
(15 messages posted)
Hey, I got a better idea.... How about going to the Pirate Bay and downloading the
iso called " HP Windows XP Home Edtion SP3 OEM.406045-001" and then installing....
Oh my gosh, it worked! XP istalled w/o crapware. Now to the HP website and download
the drivers....
Holy cow! This can't be that easy!!?!?!?!
Now for MS updates. Done!
I can't believe it! I'm up and running! I didn't even spend a penny!
I can see we got lot's of millionaires out there. Throw money at the problem and
it will go away you say! Then you blame me for no good cause in buying a machine
I wasn't told would have all this crap on it.
doesn't matter. I know to take care of problems and had this issue resolved already
last night.
But this site is interesting. People really like to blame and scould.
On Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 8:49 am, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>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.
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