Side effects of uninstalling Bloatware in new notebooks

Posted by Roy on April 30, 2009, 5:39 pm

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Hi guys
I would like to ask the side effect of uninstalling the bloatware from
new notebooks such as from manufacturers Sony, Toshiba, Acer etc.
I know that it would accelerate dramatically the particular laptop
performance if its leaner but.....
Would the functionality of other wares be affected supposing there are
shared functions such as video, photoshop utilities .....

TIA
Roy

Posted by Barry Watzman on April 30, 2009, 9:37 pm

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Generally, it's not an issue.

Roy wrote:
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Posted by Roy on April 30, 2009, 10:37 pm

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Hmm so do you mean if I uninstal a lot of these proprietary softwares
that I consider nonessential would not affect the performance of
other softwares. I have experienced some of these softwares share a
sort of functionality that if one is removed the performance of the
other is affected....
BTW I had bought notebooks from some of these manufacturers that
indeed had lots of extraneous wares installed and a friend of mine
that removed this experienced poor performance of his laptop.
therefore I was reluctant to remove this before but have been
thinking that as I seldom use these factory installed wares then why
should it remain in that pc?

Posted by Barry Watzman on May 1, 2009, 1:10 am

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What I meant was that uninstalling them does not normally cause ill
effects. The comment had nothing to do with performance, but rather
with the consequences of uninstalling them not as to performance but as
to functionality (e.g. would uninstalling them "break" the laptop
(generally, no)).

As to performance, these items come in two flavors: Those that have
always running components, and those that are on the computer, take up
disk space, have registry entries and files, but that don't actually do
anything (e.g. don't actually use CPU cycles) unless you run them. The
former can impact performance, the latter usually don't.

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Posted by BillW50 on May 1, 2009, 11:05 am

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Hi Roy! Well if any of these computers has a recovery disc created by PC
Angel, I have some good news. My two Gateway MX6124 came this way. And
if you delete the recovery partition on the hard drive (drive will be
unbootable now) and expand the Windows partition to fill the whole
drive. Then run the recovery disc, you will get a second option to
install just Windows without anything else. And it works great. Pure
generic version of Windows without anything else. Seems like this is an
undocumented feature.

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Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC