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  Vista installation choices for laptop? "bubbas" <bub@theware.net> - 2012-09-15 23:08 -0400
    Re: Vista installation choices for laptop? Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2012-09-16 11:32 -0400
    Re: Vista installation choices for laptop? "Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> - 2012-09-16 15:25 -0400
      Re: Vista installation choices for laptop? Couturier946 <Couturier946.5ji0pn@no.email.invalid> - 2012-09-26 03:41 -0500
    Re: Vista installation choices for laptop? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2012-09-26 10:03 -0700

#1558 — Vista installation choices for laptop?

I recently acquired a several year old HP laptop that used Vista as OS.  The 
main partition was corrupted, and I did a factory restore from the recovery 
partition.  The restore went ok, but I find the system runs sluggish and it 
seems there were a lot of programs/ process installed that maybe weren't 
needed.  Here is where I have a question: Instead of using the factory 
restore partition, could I have used any old Vista OS disc and input the 
product key code on the bottom of the laptop?  Would this work? 
Effectively, it would bypass the "bloatware" included with factory restore 
and I realize I would still have to install the laptop drivers separately 
and hopefully Vista would accept the key on the bottom of the laptop.

Thanks,
Bud 

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#1559

Alternative is to, immediatly after the install, open the add-remove
pannel and start removing stuff.

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#1560

"bubbas" <bub@theware.net> wrote in message 
news:k33fpr$bhs$1@dont-email.me...

>I recently acquired a several year old HP laptop that used Vista as OS. 
>The main partition was corrupted, and I did a factory restore from the 
>recovery partition.  The restore went ok, but I find the system runs 
>sluggish and it seems there were a lot of programs/ process installed that 
>maybe weren't needed.  Here is where I have a question: Instead of using 
>the factory restore partition, could I have used any old Vista OS disc and 
>input the product key code on the bottom of the laptop?  Would this work? 
>Effectively, it would bypass the "bloatware" included with factory restore 
>and I realize I would still have to install the laptop drivers separately 
>and hopefully Vista would accept the key on the bottom of the laptop.

When people instal a new OS on a laptop, the most common handicap
or delay seems to be OS-specific drivers for whatever is unique or non-
standard in the laptop hardware.  (Linux-experienced users often find
Linux helpful in the search for essential drivers.)

Much bloatware is conveniently removed by software from
www.pcdecrapifyer.com (for which many thanks.)  This presents a
menu of what it considers bloatware, including some MS peculiarities,
each of which can be checked to remove or keep installed.

-- 
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada) 

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#1581

I recently acquired a several year old HP laptop that used Vista as OS. 
The
main partition was corrupted, and I did a factory restore from the
recovery
partition.

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#1585

On 9/15/2012 8:08 PM, bubbas wrote:
> I recently acquired a several year old HP laptop that used Vista as OS.
> The main partition was corrupted, and I did a factory restore from the
> recovery partition. The restore went ok, but I find the system runs
> sluggish and it seems there were a lot of programs/ process installed
> that maybe weren't needed. Here is where I have a question: Instead of
> using the factory restore partition, could I have used any old Vista OS
> disc and input the product key code on the bottom of the laptop? Would
> this work? Effectively, it would bypass the "bloatware" included with
> factory restore and I realize I would still have to install the laptop
> drivers separately and hopefully Vista would accept the key on the
> bottom of the laptop.
>
> Thanks,
> Bud
My experience is entirely with Dell.
I've found that if you have the correct DELL OEM install disk, there's
no place to enter a key because it doesn't need one.
Any disk that is not a DELL disk requires a key and won't accept the key
from the DELL COA sticker.
If you use a keyfinder to detect the key used by your current install,
it probably won't match the key on the COA sticker.

Sometimes, the laptop has the means to build a reinstall CD, but it only 
works once.
There are tutorials on the web telling you how to trick the OS into
making a second restore disk.  This can come in very handy if your
experiments mess up the recovery partition.

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