Comments on: How to Speed Up Your New Windows PC https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/ Common Questions, Simple Answers Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.12 By: Jeff https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/#comment-17095 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:51:36 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2485#comment-17095 My wife and I purchased an HP laptop recently, and as luck would have it, an HP Rep was in the store. She suggested we take the laptop up to Customer Service and have the extra software that was loaded on the laptop removed for a nominal fee.
That’s pretty bold.

]]> By: gh https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/#comment-10652 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:53:43 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2485#comment-10652 Before doing _anything_ with your new brand pc, you should make recovery dvd(s). Most of them don’t come with a windows dvd or recovery disks, you need to burn those yourselves. I would also advise to make a complete image backup of the harddisk, which is way better and faster than reïnstalling from recovery disks.

FYI: Drivermax and similar software doesn’t do what it is supposed to do. I have yet to find such a tool, that even correctly identifies the hardware in a pc. Most of the time your pc will be useless or crippled at best, after a reinstall using drivermax.

]]> By: simone graef https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/#comment-10651 Sat, 30 May 2009 16:11:51 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2485#comment-10651 tnx

]]> By: Coupons https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/#comment-10650 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:01:48 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2485#comment-10650 You would think that the computer manufacturers would stop installing all of this crap. I got a couple of the free Ubuntu disks a few years ago for a computer I had, and it works fine without the need for decrapifying and it’s free, which makes it a winner in my book.

]]> By: mrogi https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/#comment-10649 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:38:14 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2485#comment-10649 Decrap your PC. Reformat the drive and install Linux.

]]> By: Alexandra Jau https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/#comment-10648 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:44:05 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2485#comment-10648 And when I installed Ubuntu recently on my mums computer…It got ZERO crapware.

]]> By: Shankar Ganesh https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/#comment-10647 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:05:53 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2485#comment-10647 BTW, I’d also advise using PC Decrapifier to uninstall such preloaded junk – It has a ‘crapware definition’ list which it compares against the stuff that’s preinstalled on your PC and removes them quickly: http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/apps

]]> By: Shankar Ganesh https://www.simplehelp.net/2017/05/05/how-to-speed-up-your-new-pc/#comment-10646 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:00:02 +0000 http://www.simplehelp.net/?p=2485#comment-10646 Great tips and these are exactly what I did when I got a Dell laptop recently. Your HP seems to have come with too much crapware than mine :D

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