When I first bought my computer, they gave me the recovery disks for Windows XP, however, there was a lot of junk installed. I then clean installed vista and used it for about 2 years now. Now I need to install Windows XP again and I was wondering if there was a way to install it without all the junk on the discs. When I bought my computer they gave me 3 recovery discs(part 1,2 and 3) Then when I install XP I find all these trials and mini games. Anyway to get rid of them and only install XP?
Tagged with: mini games • recovery disks • windows xp
Filed under: Clean Up Computer
Just go to Control Panel> Add/Remove Programs;
There, walk through the trash not needed & delete them.
After each delete, it’s handy to run ‘CCleaner’ ( Windows> cleaner & Registry) to make cleanup faster.
Run defrag from System Tools when all is complete.
"CCleaner": http://www.ccleaner.com/
Freeware.
nope, recovery disks restore your computer to original factory status. which means it will have programs that you do not need, do not want, and have to waste time to delete. However, spending a few mins deleting the stuff is better than spend 130 bucks to buy a new windowsxp disc, and avoid have to manually locate all the drivers.
Recovery discs or partitions are generally images of an Operating System, meaning it’s set up a specific way. If you’re computer has any stickers on it with an XP serial, you could borrow anyone’s XP CD of the same version and use your serial number to install it.
You will always have the factory junk bundled with the "clean install" from a factory recovery disk.
However, if you are willing to pay for it, you may purchase a retail copy of windows XP. The retail box will only contain the core operating system components. But it may not come with all the needed drivers, so check if they’re available from the manufacturer’s website.
I would recommend simply using the included recovery disk, then removing all the junk manually. This way you won’t need to spend extra money and will not need to worry about finding driver software.
No unless you want too buy a new copy of XP which is quite hard now
Unfortunately the OEM (person who gave you the disks) put those trials on for cash from the people who wake them so there is no way of not installing them, but you can always uninstall them after youve installed XP
You need to buy an off the shelf retail version of XP to get it cleanly installed without all the "junk".