FIRST of all get rid of anything Norton (other than PC Anywhere if you use
it). Norton has been known to cause partition problems with hard drives with
service partitions.
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From: "Andrew Webber" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Question about getting a new Thinkpad...
Presumably (or perhaps) they are paid to put the trial versions there.
MS-Office might be an exception since it's so dominant (though the
trial version of 2007 might get a user to request an upgrade from
2003) but with things like anti-virus, there's a lot of competition
and a subscription model, so getting someone to try a new program
would be worth paying for.
--
Andrew mailto:[email protected]
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 3:30:28 PM, you wrote:
Do you (or anybody else here) happen to know what comes on a Win7
Thinkpad,
in addition to Win7?
ie, is there a doc up on the Lenovo site that checklists how it differs
from
a clean install? It seems rather screwy that something as fundamental as
this is always so obfuscated, why can't "clean Win7" be a preload option?
Now THAT would be useful on a restore partition.
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From: "STeve Andre'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:20 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Scott Matthews" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Question about getting a new Thinkpad...
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'
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