Re: Vista

"tim Josling" <tejgcc_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As others pointed out, manufacturers tend to load all sorts of rubbish on
your PC which uses memory, causes swapping and slows down start up. You
can usually get rid of most of it.


I get rid of all of it. On the unusual occasion that I buy a PC from such
a vendor (I usually build them or buy them from a guy who builds them for
me), I play with it some first to make sure it's working correctly, then
reformat and repartition the hard drive and reinstall Windows and all the
applications from the ground up. If necessary, I use a separately bought
OEM Windows disk, to make sure none of the crummy stuff gets reinstalled
from the manufacturer's OEM disk, which they sometimes do. I am really
serious about having no unneeded stuff on my work PCs, and I hate that
vendor installed junk with a passion. :-)
--
Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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