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Windows Vista Installation CD

by jjuunniiee Feb 7, 2010 10:33AM PST

I bought my laptop with Vista pre-installed and was not provided any installation CD's. (As to be expected.) ((Really wish they would just provide them!))

I just created the recovery CD's, but what I want to do exactly is format my drive, and install a completely fresh, clean install of Vista without all the HP bloat-ware that came with my laptop.

Is it even possible to create a simple OS installation disk without the bloat-ware?? Please tell me there is!

I've searched and searched to find a way to do this, but I didn't see that specific question answered, so any help you smart people can provide would be awesome

Windows Vista Home Basic
Service Pack 1
HP G50 Notebook PC
Intel 2.16GHz
1 GIG RAM
140 GIG HD

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Define bloat.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 7, 2010 9:39PM PST

One owner was trying to get rid of Dell's Quickset and it took about a week for them at accept it was not bloat.

If you restore from the restore media you should end up where you are now so why not uninstall what bothers you?
Bob

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SP2

by jeff_windows_team Feb 9, 2010 7:44AM PST

... and get SP2 while you are at it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935791

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