On Saturday 03 April 2010 08:51:26 Scott Matthews wrote: > In the past, whenever I purchased a new PC I would always wipe it and > perform a clean install -- as the manufacturers would always preload > various undesirable apps and other useless stuff. > > Am I correct to assume that a new Thinkpad (Win 7) will similarly come with > this sort of stuff? > > If so, is there a "best" way to purchase a Thinkpad, presumably with Win 7, > and then perform a clean install? > > Thanks kindly, -Scott
Everyone installs trash on their systems these days, it seems. If you run to the patch site and add stuff, then delete the crud you don't want, I don't see a need to scrub the system. You'll have to do that soon enough after you get infected. ;-) The restore partition will reinstall all the crud, so perhaps a checklist of things that want to be removed is a good idea. I hadn't thought of that. In some cases it seems to be possible to buy a thinkpad with just dos on it, at some savings. You could then get a copy of W7 and install that, but that costs more and I don't think its worth it--at least I've not seen a compelling reason for that. --STeve Andre' _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
