Factory load software or reformat and reload?

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wpwood3 · #1 Post by **wpwood3** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:57 pm

Just curious...

My new T60 is a very fast computer but it seems like all that speed is being sapped by all the bloatware in the factory install. I'm considering reformatting and simply adding back the things I need and nothing more.

What are others doing?

pundit · #2 Post by **pundit** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:02 pm

That sounds like a good idea. It is what I plan to do, at least before I remove windows entirely.

jobes · #3 Post by **jobes** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:09 pm

Scotchdiver and I just had a discussion on this.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=22263

ScotchDiver · #4 Post by **ScotchDiver** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:18 pm

Reformat to get the extra 4GB from the recovery partition and clean out the junkware.

See this thread for directions:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=22263

Edit: Jinx

wpwood3 · #5 Post by **wpwood3** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:53 pm

ScotchDiver wrote:Reformat to get the extra 4GB from the recovery partition and clean out the junkware.

See this thread for directions:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=22263

Edit: Jinx

Outstanding directions!

serpico · #6 Post by **serpico** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:54 pm

I went with Option #3 - Reformat but keep hidden partition.

Some notes from my experience: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 671#141671

#7 Post by **dr_st** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:56 pm

It seemed to me that prior to T60 they didn't put so much junkware. So I just removed the preinstalled apps I didn't need.

ScotchDiver · #8 Post by **ScotchDiver** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:52 pm

I tried that first, but none of the Norton apps would uninstall. They'd just hang at about the 50% point.

Website · #9 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:19 pm

I like to do a fresh install everytime. I just backup my "my Docs" folder and my "Favorites".

Call house cleaning, if you will.

RaysMD · #10 Post by **RaysMD** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:23 pm

hey guys, this was the thread that I used to make my windows install cd from all the files located on the hard drive.

An important step is to make a WINNT.SIF file. Make sure you get the IBM OEM CD key from the unattend.txt file

here's the threadhttp://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... f&start=30

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