[nfbcs] Laptop without bloatware

[Tom Moore]

The only modifications I would make to this advice would be to see if on the
default hd layout on the laptop if they have a small partition where they
store copies of the drivers for the different pieces of hardware in your
system and take down a copy of these.
In my case I needed to load a driver to get the ssd working during the
windows install so I needed to side load the particular driver to have the
drive show up in the partitioner program.
Other than this loading speech at the start of the install is now possible
with the last two versions of windows that have been released.

Thanks,
Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christopher
Chaltain via nfbcs
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 8:56 PM
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Cc: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Laptop without bloatware

I know I'm repeating myself, but when I bought my HP Envy, I just 
installed a clean copy of Windows to remove all of HP's software and the 
trialware that came preinstalled on my system. It didn't cost me any 
extra. I just followed the instructions at 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10startfresh


On 05/28/2018 01:22 PM, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for all the interesting suggestions.
> It seems like not getting bloatware makes a laptop more expensive, maybe.
I
> suppose the bloatware sellers give a kickback?
> I'm going to ask my boss for ideas, too, as he really knows this stuff.
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Michael Doise
via
> nfbcs
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 1:19 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Cc: Michael Doise; Nancy Coffman
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Laptop without bloatware
>
> A good way to shop for Windows laptops is to look for one that says it is
a
> Microsoft Signature edition machine. This ensures that you get the
intended
> Windows experience without bloatware.
>
> Hope this helps you guys.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 27, 2018, at 8:23 PM, Nancy Coffman via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>> Keep us posted on what you find please. I think there are a lot of us
> looking for one of those.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On May 21, 2018, at 12:32 PM, Chris Nestrud via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>>> I recently bought a Lenovo P51. It was pretty much standard Windows 10
>>> as far as I could tell, maybe one or two Lenovo-specific apps. Nice
>>> keyboard including numpad, good build quality, fast, no issues.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 01:19:10PM -0400, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs
> wrote:
>>>> I'd like to research laptops without any of the usual bloatware loaded.
>>>> I'm thinking all I want is the OS, and I'll add what I want, thank you
>>>> very much.
>>>> Can someone suggest the right words for search for such a thing on
> Amazon
>>>> or Froogle?  It's easy to search for something "with" but not so easy
> for
>>>> "without".
>>>> Or, if someone has bought such a machine, what brand and where?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Tracy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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