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James Ivey
Hi Everyone,
I've got a brand new Dell Studio 17 laptop that was bought for me. It has
Vista Home Premium, Office 2007, and a whole bunch of crapola I don't care
about - including McAfee (sp?)
Makes me nuts to have all this extra *stuff* on a computer, so I'm
considering wiping the harddrive and doing a clean install of Vista.
In addition to what came with the laptop, I've got an OEM version of Vista
Home Premium I bought not long after it was released - seems like it was oh,
a year, maybe a year and a half ago. This is what I'm thinking of
installing.
I used to format/reload regularly back in the Win95-WinXP days, but its been
a while since I did one so I'm a bit rusty.
Any suggestions? Any major hurdles?
Of course I've got about 10 Dell cds that came with the laptop - drivers and
such.
Dumb idea?
James
I've got a brand new Dell Studio 17 laptop that was bought for me. It has
Vista Home Premium, Office 2007, and a whole bunch of crapola I don't care
about - including McAfee (sp?)
Makes me nuts to have all this extra *stuff* on a computer, so I'm
considering wiping the harddrive and doing a clean install of Vista.
In addition to what came with the laptop, I've got an OEM version of Vista
Home Premium I bought not long after it was released - seems like it was oh,
a year, maybe a year and a half ago. This is what I'm thinking of
installing.
I used to format/reload regularly back in the Win95-WinXP days, but its been
a while since I did one so I'm a bit rusty.
Any suggestions? Any major hurdles?
Of course I've got about 10 Dell cds that came with the laptop - drivers and
such.
Dumb idea?
James