Interesting. Looking at a Dell disc (P/N JDNFT) here now. I don’t see anything right off that looks specific to Dell, but mine has Sources\$oem$, which indicates it's an OEM disc (duh). Surprisingly, there's just a text file in it. I guess, the point is I'd be skeptical that it's really "clean", but it does kinda look like it.
... Fyi, I just booted to it and don't see any Dell specific branding on the install either. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 3:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Win 8 OEM clean install - media, editions, activation On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm curious about your Dell OEM CD. I haven't seen one for win8 ... Dell P/N was H27WW, if that helps any. > ... but the ones I've seen have had some dell customizations included. I did actually do a search for OEM customizations. There was nothing in the filesystem containing <*dell*> (other than some "*ModelLib*" names). In the registry, there were some help/support URLs pointing to <http://support.dell.com/>. There were also some drivers, but they looked like they could have been "in-box" drivers that come with Windows anyway. I didn't see anything else that was preloaded. Add/Remove Programs is empty. Nothing non-Microsoft under any "Program Files". Nothing non-Microsoft under "WindowsApps". Nothing non-Microsoft in the Start menus/pages. -- Ben
