The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Don't want to reformat and install XP. Any Alternatives?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by tinman1412, Jul 15, 2007.

  1. tinman1412

    tinman1412 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    25
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I received my X61s ealier this week. I removed the 512mb of RAM and installed 2 sticks of 1GB RAM. My computer runs much faster now. My only concern is that in Task Manager, there are over 80 processes running, and 1.2 of 2.0 GB of RAM is being used before I even do anything. I am not comfortable with reformatting and install XP Pro. Is there an alternative?. I just want to remove all the junk on my laptop and remove these processes. How do I go about doing this?. Any recommendations?. I really don't want to spend more money on RAM, I think 2GB is plenty for what I'm doing. I use my X61s for mainly web surfing and word processing.

    Thanks
     
    tinman1412, Jul 15, 2007
    #1
  2. bmwrob

    bmwrob Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    4,591
    Messages:
    2,128
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    You can start by going to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs, and delete those which you don't need. Then try Start ->Run, type msconfig ->Startup and uncheck unnecessary startup apps. While your in the neighborhood: Start ->Run, type services.msc and disable unwanted processes.

    Run CCleaner to clean the leftover junk.
     
    bmwrob, Jul 15, 2007
    #2
  3. Tailic

    Tailic Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    78
    Messages:
    775
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    You can also read some guides on tweaking xp or vista here.

    Theres also the programs tweak xp and the beta version of tweak vista that do more advanced tweaking after removing all the stuff you don't want.

    I got my T61 last week and I'm in the same boat as you but I'm planning on going threw the hassle of reformatting since I want to recover the space from the hidden partitions. I also want to install linux so its best in my case just to format.

    Main problem for me though is finding a vista disc...
     
    Tailic, Jul 15, 2007
    #3
  4. sp00n

    sp00n Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    512
    Messages:
    1,684
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Start with Add/Remove Programs bmwrob has mentioned.

    There's a Lenovo program that lets you choose what you want to be installed by default. I'm not exactly sure if it formats your computer or just removes the selected programs for you. I forgot the name off the top of my head. Someone here knows what I'm talking about.

    -edit-
    I found the name of the program. You can read more about it here:
    http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=63
     
    sp00n, Jul 15, 2007
    #4