[mgh24]

Picked up a low-end Toshiba (celeron 900), have not opened it yet.
Maybe been too long since I have bought a pre-built PC, but sales guy tells me that the laptop does not come with an install CD. It has WIN 7 pre-installed, and he tells me I will be prompted to burn install disks when I first boot.

One of the first things I do is wipe the hard drive to get ride of all the extra crap that is often installed from factory.

Probably being paranoid here, but if I am burning an install CD from the original factory OS installation, will it have all the crap, demos, "free" anti-virus etc., or will it be a clean WIN 7 install disk?

Thanks for any help.

[leroys1000]

It will have everything that was originally installed
on the computer.
I haven't seen windows 7 yet,so I don't know if it has
the backup utility like vista.
If it does,then uninstall all unneeded programs and
make a backup of the system.

[mgh24]

Thank You.

So would you think this is an installation disk, or just an image of the hard drive that is restored?

Thanks for the help.

[leroys1000]

It's just a restore image.