bloatware

Hi I was thinking about all of the people who post and complain about not getting a Windows 7 disk with their computer. I just answered one yesterday from someone who wanted to hack the restore partition and remove all the bloatware because they didn't have a disk to do a clean install of...

I have an new Asus K52F notebook that's pre installed with Windows 7 x64 HP. I have no dvd as such and will have to rely on the recovery partition to solve any problems that may ... OK, will occur. Now , my question is .... Is it possible to break into the protected recovery partition , remove...

i have have ran the system readiness tool and even scannow .the scan showed no integrity violations but the checksure log showed 16 corruptions.i have my updates set to automatic .ive tried almost everything i believe even disabling my antivirus and downloading the sp1 for windows 7 manually...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm having an unusual slow login problem that is very difficult to diagnose. I just purchased a new Toshiba laptop and I have been getting it set up and removing some of the bloatware that Toshiba installs. Over the last few days I...

Hi, I hope I picked the right forum category. I'm not computer literate so when my 14 month old PC running Windows 7 Home Premium failed to restart I took it to Staples for a recovery installation. Since bringing it home I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials, then downloaded PC...

Trying to disable some of the bloatware that came with my HP G62, as well as disable unneeded auto-updates, and have been blocked from doing so. Ran msconfig, startup entries... Unchecked, hit "apply" and they just become checked again. ??? (Ran as administrator on admin account) Tried...

Tomorrow my new Samsung netbook will be delivered, Windows 7 Starter is preinstalled. I haven't had a netbook before, and I haven't used Windows 7 before. I'd like to make an image of the HDD immediately after unpacking. I need to play around with Windows 7 and I probably want to remove...

Word on the street is that Microsoft plans to announce a Windows-powered iPad contender at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show. We’ve seen this movie before. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer waved around a Hewlett-Packard Link Removed at CES 2010. HP later hyped up the device with specifications...

I, like many other people, think that Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat X Pro have become extreme bloatware for the occasional home user of PDF files. All I want is something to read PDF files and print PDF files from Microsoft Word and Excel. I don't need extras like form filling, commenting...

I just bought a new Acer laptop, it should arrive in the next few days. it comes preloaded with windows 7 x64 home premium. i have been using and building desktop computers for awhile and I have always done clean installations with my oem discs. i understand that the case is different when it...

I purchased a dell 15r (N5010), and have had it for about 3 days. It is a core i3 2.27Ghz, 4Gb RAM. I did a clean install of the OS to get rid of all the bloatware. I then downloaded the respective drivers from the dell website and the resource CD that came with the laptop. After the clean OS...

I bought a laptop with home premium that has the key sticker on the bottom. The laptop is loaded with bloatware. I would like to do a clean install of just Win 7. I also have home premium on my desktop. Could I use the disc I got for my desktop and install it onto my laptop and use the laptop...

Hello, Folks, I have a HP OfficeJet 7310 multi-function printer that is unstable in my current Win7 installation. I have completely uninstalled all of the HP drivers and applications, and re-installed all of HP's latest bloatware in order to retain all of the functionality of the printer...

Hi, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me - this is my first post on the forum. I just bought a Sony Vaio NW11Z/T laptop which has Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit installed and want to upgrade to Windows 7. I have read through most of the threads dealing with the many problems...

I tried searching on this topic but I must be "search facility challenged" because I can't find any answers. I have a new Lenovo laptop with Vista Ultimate 32. It has no apps (other than bloatware) installed. I've cloned it and I want to get it converted to W7 ASAP. The "free" W7 32 upgrade from...

OK, I now have a new laptop running Vista Ultimate 32, and an extra (as per tblount) HDD. My W7 Upgrade is "In The Mail". I want to end up with W7 Ultimate 64 with 2 partitions. Hardware specs are 3.06GHz Duo 2 T9900 processor, 8GB memory & 320GB HDD. There are no apps on the Vista system except...

I've tried sumatra but it doesnt support Windows Preview. FoxIt doesnt seem to be 64 bit native I dont want to use Acrobat as its utter bloatware. Any other ideas?

I've been searching for an our or so all over trying to find something that helps me with this problem, but nothing seems to be working. I have an HP dv6780se Pavillion Laptop. I put a new hard drive in it to restore and the restore disks are working correctly. It will install windows vista...

Hi! I'm seriuos... I totally hate the bloatware the manufacturer put on my machine. I resented the "Vista Recovery Disc's" too. Every time I have to re-install Vista, I have to spend long periods of time erasing these programs that they originally put on my machine. And they are intricately...

I have used Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, 98, ME and 95. Lets face it Microsoft have an almost impossible task to replace XP! For me XP is so good, it runs all my software, all my hardware, no problems. Vista will use most of my hardware but not software. Windows 7 wont run properly...