Bloatware

Question

I've just recieved my new Inspiron 9400 laptop. It is quite clogged down with the endless software dell puts in it. Does anyone have any tips or links on how to speed up performance? Which software programs are useless and can be removed?

jmwills · Answer

How about a clean install??

Tiran · Answer

How do you do that? (sorry i'm not very good on computers)

Entropy42 · Answer

@jmwills wrote:

How about a clean install??

I did a clean install myself, but I've also heard good things about Dell Decrapifier - Google it.

YMMV, I have heard good things but haven't used it myself. A clean install will do a better job, but Decrapifier may be sufficient and require far less effort.

jmwills · Answer

Okay, it's a bit of reading, but:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp
http://www.djdenham.com/Install%20Procedures.htm#Install

Driver Installation:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=1A0C0937D62A8739E0401E0A55174744&journalid=4F1F82483DC811DBAE564F9328EE04A4&l=en&s=gen

Or you can try this link, it has been mentioned here several times:

http://www.yorkspace.com/pc-de-crapifier/

This little program just removes the bloat without a reinstall.

Message Edited by jmwills on 11-01-2006 03:06 PM

jmwills · Answer

Post back on the results.

Tiran · Answer

Cheers!

PETER345 · Answer

Another approach is to just use Add/Remove programs to get rid of what you don't want. I've done that lately and it works fairly well. Of course, it does not clean every last registry entry.

A clean install with remove the ability to use the PC restore (control-F11) or any other Dell utilities or software that shipped with the machine that you might want.

Peter

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Bloatware

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