Bloatware & Processes

I understand this may have to go in another forum maybe. I just wanted to ask re Lenovo if there is a simple way of cleaning the laptop of unnecessary Windows processes etc. to make it run smoother. As in another way than manual ! Think there is a little progra, called decrapifier to uninstall the bloatware in one go, just not sure if there is a little utility that does the rest. Also Thinkvantage is OK but I don't use half of it. When you make recovery discs and then reinstall do you get an optio to leave stuff out or does it simply put the entire image back?

 

I still feel its always best to do a clean install where you get to chose what goes into your machine and what not. It may be hard but the results are most satisfying. I use Acronis True Image once Ive got everything up and running to save me the despair if I should ever need restore my system. Using the recovery disks will put back all the bloatware youve painstakingly put out.

 

So I am guessing with Acronis you can filter it all out nicely. May have to look into that. Yes I dont want too much on there that I dont need

 

Doing a Rescue & Recovery "factory restore" used to allow you to choose a "custom" option that let you de-select any Thinkvantage utilities that you did not want as well as some other optional Windows components. It was great and so much faster/easier than doing a "clean install." The last time that I saw this feature was on my X61s. AFAIK, Lenovo has now scrapped this feature for some stupid reason...I wish they hadn't

 

A clean install should lower the number of processes to around 60.

 

well maybe on the XP version of an X200s that feature may still exist ?

 

ThinkPads of the T61, R61 and X61 era offered just this feature. For some reason, which I never saw why, it was removed.

 

I guess it is a lot of work to take a clean Install XP off an 2003 XP CD and then work on downloading all the drivers ? There must be some program utility by now that cleans it all ?

 

Why? Just update Windows and after that install ThinkVantage System Update and you are done. You only should install antivirus first and probably get your wlan/lan driver on a usb stick in case it is not automaticall recognized by Windows.

 

Yes well I have had problems with drivers before. It indeed SHOULD all go automatically but it just does not go as planned at times. Let's see what's on the machine first. It's an ex demo and they were going to put a clean install XP Pro on it instead of Vista.

 

i uninstalled the unwanted programs one by one and turned off the services that i dont know manually. at startup, windows 7 is using around 750mb (out of the box it used 1.3gb) and the number of processes, i think, is around 60-65.

it took quite a bit of time but it wasnt too bad.

edit: the number of processes at startup is 54.