Re: Hp Software screwing up windows

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Gateway sent a Vista w/SP1 OS CD with my notebook (along with the recovery
partition), but I had to download the drivers myself. My Compaq Presario
2500 notebook included both an XP w/SP1 OS CD and the Drivers CD. But my
Compaq Presario desktop had the recovery partition only. The CD that came
with it was for Money and Works. Whoopee!!
When we ordered HP's for work, each one came with an OS CD. But when we
ordered 6 Dell notebooks, we had to request one (as you mentioned), but they
only sent 1 CD for all 6. Not much good for reinstallation since 4 were in
South Carolina and 2 were sent to Ohio.

SC Tom

"John" <a> wrote in message news:eOx1xw2GKHA.4432@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Does HP provide Windows setup CD instead of a recovery disk?? It'll be
cool if they do. Dell is the only manufacturer that I know that'll provide
us Windows setup disk, if requested.

"Anteaus" <Anteaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B7E9123F-F440-4CF3-BE2A-BF0740F971C5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If you mean preinstalled stuff, the best answer is a fresh install. It
takes
so long to clean all this stuff out that reinstalling Windows is often
the
easier and better option. Just make sure you have drivers available and a
Windows CD.

Alternatively look for sysinternals' AutoRuns which will allow you to
identify and stop autorunning junk (which is the main slowdown/popup
causer)

"Bondpwk" wrote:

I recently posted issues with HP software producing pop-ups that went
wild
and kept going wild...As per everyones suggestions I have uninstalled
all the
hp software thru remove software in the control panel. I did a check
thru
autoruns and their are still some HP entries showing there. I then went
to
search thru windows and searched "HP" and came up with over a thousand
HP
items in the list...even though I went thru and uninstalled all HP
software.
What is the best methods to continue to get rid of all of this stuff..I
noticed there are a couple of .exe extensions as well. Should I delete
the
entries that show up in autoruns seperately thru autoruns ??

I want to rid my computer of this HP stuff because I have little
confidence
that the uninstalls took care of the pop up bug from HP. I also did run
Malware bytes to see if there was malware and things were clean...

Thanks.




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