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    Interuppted T61P Restore Disk Experiment

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by BrendaEM, Mar 8, 2008.

  1. BrendaEM

    BrendaEM Notebook Consultant

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    This is a "use at your own risk" thing....

    I hate that Lenovo does not supply a real Windows install disk!
    How much, you might ask...

    I will be installing Rhino3d, which probably needs to be registration bound to a specific machine.

    I've been unhappy with Lenovo's process bloat, so I did an experiment.

    I FIRST backed up my wpa.dbl, as seen in other forums, as well as all my documents and application data, as well as creating "restore media."

    I ran the restore utility. It was claimed that I would have an option whether or not to install the "software," but, sadly, I never saw an option to opt out it.

    During the restore, I noticed that Windows was up and running, and watched a DOS window open, and start copying the onslaught of bloat. In that moment of frustration, I did something radical: I canceled the operation. I felt like I just jettisoned the fuel from Galileo Seven. Where did that leave me? The installer asked if it wanted to "reseal" the installation for use, and I clicked that it was okay. It did its thing.

    As a legal owner of my software license, I copied back the wpa.dbl. I'm not sure it took, but I have my fingers crossed.

    As seen in other threads, I installed drivers: power manager, modem, TP shocks, Bluetooth, stepping, hard drive matrix (rebooted/changed CMOS SATA setting). I did all the Windows updates. There was a audio/modem connector fetched from Windows Update, perhaps to make the dialtones come from the speakers. I killed MSNMessager, and disabled all the quickloaders. I shut off system restore.

    I installed the modded Geforce drivers, an old lighter version of ZoneAlarm, made before they had the spyware "bug," the .icc Display profile loader, as well as YZ shadow, which makes drop shadows under the windows. I am also trying SumatraPDF, because I am tired of Adobe's updater. If there was another Java solution, I'd try it, too.

    When I fresh reboot the machine, the memory usage is less than 180mb, 33 processes showing!
     
    BrendaEM, Mar 8, 2008
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  2. Arki

    Arki Super Moderator

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    Can I ask where you checked this out? Task Manager? Are you looking at the Commit Charge or something?
     
    Arki, Mar 8, 2008
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