[Imola Ghost]

I've got a basically new HP laptop. I've made the recovery disks and I'm wanting to do a recovery [laptop has been messing up lately] but I don't want to install all of the programs that originally came with it from the factory.

How can I load the recovery disks and load just Windows Vista Premium and cut out all of the bullcrap software HP loads?

[I_Will]

Hi,

What i would try, if you haven't do so already, is get into bios of your computer
and check the boot order of your devices and make sure that the DVD/CD drive
is first in the list! save and exit. Pop the recovery disk in, re-boot the machine and follow
the on screen instructions. If that doesn't work then possibly there was a problem with the burning of the recovery disk.

If that's the case and you have the original os disk, pop that in, reboot, and go for a full
reinstall.

W.

[Imola Ghost]

I've already done the full HP recovery and the laptop is booted up to the desktop.

I was asking if there was a way to avoid running the recovery, then wait till it finished then use the add/remove programs to remove all of the programs HP bombards you with? I'd run the recovery disks again if I could avoid loading all of the HP software from the get go.

I just ran the recovery and I didn't see a way to select to slick the hard drive, install the OS and not the crapware.

All I want on the laptop is the Vista OS and not the crap software HP loads intially.

[I_Will]

have you got the original OS disk? It's possible that the recovery disk is reverting you back
to a state when you had a load of stuff loaded. so the only way around this is to remove
the software individually from the add/remove software section in control panel.

if that is not getting you anywhere try Vista manager, this is a great piece of software
that allows you to optimize the OS. Things like removing software it does really well.
You can test it for a number of days and it won't revert any changes.

Otherwise a clean install with the original OS disk is the way forward. Real or otherwise.