HP Computers & Bloatware, etc. Options

[Melissa]

My computer hasn't come yet, but it's an HP Pavilion Tablet and I heard that HPs come with a bunch of programs that slow your computer down. I've been playing around with my grandfather's HP and think I should be able to delete most from Control Panel / Add Remove Programs, etc., but I've been reading up on it and a lot of people say that the best way to get rid of shit is to restore, reinstall Windows Vista, etc.

I suck at anything computer related if it has to do with ... fixing and installing things into my computer.

So I was just wondering if anybody has an HP and thinks that it works fine without reinstalling Windows without the bloatware. Or if just deleting extraneous trials and programs from the Control Panel works fine.

//edit: sorry, I guess this goes in technology.

[icecreamisyummy]

i have an HP and yes they come with a lot of stuff, but Vista also slows it down... takes forever for the computer to start up
im actaully sending mine to get fixed. its making some weird noises. and they dont know whre its coming from. srry i dont think i was much help

[LoveToMySilas]

Moved to Technology.

I gotcha, b.

[*CowerPointyObjects*]

My HP's alright. As much as people say Vista is really slow and all, my laptop's way faster than my home desktop with XP was. I mean granted, I wasn't the only one using that computer and the rest of my family is fairly incompetent, but even so. I find it takes longer to turn off my computer than turn it on, actually. As far as the bloatware goes, at Best Buy they offered to remove the trial stuff (like AOL and all that) so that it wouldn't keep coming up, so I'm sure that helped. Even so, I'm not sure it'd be worth the effort to reinstall Vista and all that, but maybe.

[queen]

just go down the list and uninstall what you don't want or need. my computers are empty except the necessary drivers, adobe-macromedia suite, microsoft office suite, aim, and maybe some antivirus/anti spyware and games.

then edit your startup list (run >> msconfig >> starup tab) and uncheck stuff you don't need (you should probably google each program if you don't know what they do).

if you want even faster performance, you could disable all the unnecessary graphics and effects for xp or vista.

after you delete a bunch of crap on your pc, you should defrag, so do that afterwards.

[Insurmountable]

HP's are okay, my previous laptop was an HP and it wasn't slow or anything. I think the main problem is that it comes with Vista which could be why its so slow and coming along with any programs that they have added on it.

Also my previous HP had windows xp, so of course it was probably better than having vista.

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

i have an HP and yes they come with a lot of stuff, but Vista also slows it down... takes forever for the computer to start up
im actaully sending mine to get fixed. its making some weird noises. and they dont know whre its coming from. srry i dont think i was much help

UGH YES. my hp laptop takes forever to start up. well not really, but it seems like it.

[jaeman]

I have a laptop, an HP Pavilion dv2000 Entertainment PC. It does have a lot of unnecessary programs but that's what the delete function is for. If you ever feel the need for wanting the programs back, you can do a system restore back to the original factory settings and applications/programs.