Redoing a new system with plain MS Vista

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I am planning on getting a new system with Vista pre-installed (Type
unknown yet but probably E-Machine or HP) and would like to redo it by
installing a legal, registered version of MS Vista over the
pre-installed copy thereby getting rid of all the pre-installed crap
that the maker of the system put on it by reformating and installing
the new copy of Vista.

Question is might I run into problem or anything?!?! At present am
running 98se on old system so I know nothing about Vista.

Suggestions or comments please.

TIA
 
Hi,

Better to just uninstall that which you do not want. Most preinstalled
machines contain proprietary hardware that use drivers not found in retail
versions of Windows. If you install the retail version, you may run into
issues with some parts of the system hardware. There is also a chance that
doing this might void any warranty, or require that you reinstall the
supplied version before requesting any warranty work.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
kraut said:
I am planning on getting a new system with Vista pre-installed (Type
unknown yet but probably E-Machine or HP) and would like to redo it by
installing a legal, registered version of MS Vista over the
pre-installed copy thereby getting rid of all the pre-installed crap
that the maker of the system put on it by reformating and installing
the new copy of Vista.

Question is might I run into problem or anything?!?! At present am
running 98se on old system so I know nothing about Vista.

Suggestions or comments please.

TIA
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Rather than waste money on a Vista DVD, just remove all of the crap that you
do not want by going to 'Programs and Features' (the Vista equivalent of
Add/Remove Programs). It is that easy..
 
If you really want to have a completely new copy of VISTA installed, you
could avoid a lot of problems by buying an new hard drive (they are really
getting low cost) and after removing the original drive, install VISTA to the
new drive. This also will aleviate any warrantee issues since you can always
remove you new drive and reinstall the original one.
 
Rather than waste money on a Vista DVD, just remove all of the crap that
you
do not want by going to 'Programs and Features' (the Vista equivalent of
Add/Remove Programs). It is that easy..
Click to expand...

Thanks all for all the comments.

As for using the "Add / Remove Programs" feature or whatever it is
called now as you all lnow there are always remnants (SP) left behind
when doing this.

Someone e-mailed me a suggestion to just have a system built to my
specs with just what I want in and on it which I never thought of
doing. It may cost a little more but I think that is the way I shall
go. There are a couple shops in town here that custom build systems.

Thanks all for help and suggestions!!
 
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