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| Thread ID: 110386 | 2010-06-14 23:02:00 | Removing HP notebook OEM software | nofam (9009) | Press F1 |
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| 1110321 | 2010-06-14 23:02:00 | I've just got an HP ProBook 6540b in (nice machine actually!), and as usual, it's saddled with all the usual HP nonsense; is there an easy removal tool for all of this? I've previously used PC Decrapifier, but it only found 3 things when I just ran it, whereas Revo lists around 20 HP apps I want to remove . . . . . . I'm just being lazy really, but doing it with Revo is a mind-numbing process . . . . :p |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 1110322 | 2010-06-14 23:21:00 | Format, and install with DVD!...LOL | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1110323 | 2010-06-14 23:29:00 | Format, and install with DVD!...LOL Problem is, the only install discs I have are the HP ones that came with it, so I'd end up back where I started. :D |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 1110324 | 2010-06-14 23:30:00 | Ah yes, had a 3000 tower yesterday, with XP SP3 and 7 Enterprise recovery disks....though okay, format and 20 install...arhhhhhhhhhhh, 2 hours later, I had desktop.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1110325 | 2010-06-15 09:54:00 | I use Startup Control Panel by Mike Lin in XP. Its a no hassle program! Check to see if there is a W7 version. | PPp (9511) | ||
| 1110326 | 2010-06-15 10:56:00 | Why not try using Autoruns to switch off what you don't want running: www.majorgeeks.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1110327 | 2010-06-15 20:25:00 | Problem is, the only install discs I have are the HP ones that came with it, so I'd end up back where I started. :D You could borrow a Windows DVD. :) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1110328 | 2010-06-16 00:05:00 | I have to agree, its getting beyond a joke the crap that HP, Tosh & others install. I have to spent up to 1/2 hour just to clean up this crap before I can pass these PC's/notebooks onto customers :illogical They get paid to put some of this stuff in, Trialware, IE toolbars, HP phone home software(spyware ??) Even uninstalling it sometimes wont completely remove it: eg the addons that will turn up in outlook. Just why disable WZC (Win wifi tool) & force the use of the HP Tosh wifi tool that doesnt work as well, & is MUCH harder to figure out(& make it really hard to remove) I guess its the marketing men having more say than the engineers got .. to .. stop ..rant .. |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 1110329 | 2010-06-16 01:34:00 | http://directedge.us/ Borrow a DVD run this program to save your activation code and certificate. run it again after to restore code and certificate and you will be sweet |
Roger Hunt (13648) | ||
| 1110330 | 2010-06-16 02:15:00 | You could format, have all the drivers downloaded form the website and re-do it manually. Or just go through Add/Remove the long slow way and remove them one by one. |
pctek (84) | ||
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