Wiping the OEM drive and installing Vista Ultimate

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Thanks to all of you who replied to my post earlier today about doing a clean
install of Vista to get rid of all the OEM clutter ("craplets").

I really want to go this route (wipe the drive, clean install Ultimate) but
have one more question. If I do this on a new Dell machine, will Vista
likely have all the needed drivers or will I need to download them?
Downloading could be a real pain--when I went to the Dell site, I couldn't
even find some of them.

Thanks!
 
helpherb said:
Thanks to all of you who replied to my post earlier today about doing a
clean
install of Vista to get rid of all the OEM clutter ("craplets").

I really want to go this route (wipe the drive, clean install Ultimate)
but
have one more question. If I do this on a new Dell machine, will Vista
likely have all the needed drivers or will I need to download them?
Downloading could be a real pain--when I went to the Dell site, I couldn't
even find some of them.
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The big OEM's usually supply drivers for their hardware. You should contact
Dell tech support to get some good info on this.
 
Check the Dell website for Vista drivers. Download them to a cd in case the
one driver you can't live without (the NIC driver) is not included on the
Vista dvd.
 
helpherb said:
Thanks to all of you who replied to my post earlier today about doing
a clean install of Vista to get rid of all the OEM clutter
("craplets").

I really want to go this route (wipe the drive, clean install
Ultimate) but have one more question. If I do this on a new Dell
machine, will Vista likely have all the needed drivers or will I need
to download them? Downloading could be a real pain--when I went to
the Dell site, I couldn't even find some of them.

Thanks!
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http://break.com/index/how_to_properly_load_vista.html
 
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