- Jan 7, 2014
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Hello Everyone,
So I believe my title is self explanatory, but nonetheless here's what's going on. I have a Toshiba Laptop; P50T-A, which was originally shipped with Windows 8 OEM. Meaning it had all the junk Toshiba deems necessary to have on a brand new laptop. In the past I have always used OEM disks to do a “clean” install of windows. Afterwards I would go through and delete whatever programs I didn't want. This time however I decided that I wanted to decide what would be on my laptop, so I went ahead and purchased the full version of Windows 8.1 PRO from Microsoft. I backed up my drivers, and went ahead with the install. For the most part everything went well, however when I got to the desktop I immediately jumped into the control panel to open up the device manager, and the “uninstall or change a program.” Device manager looks like it's supposed to, with a ton of icons letting me know I need to install drivers, however when I jumped over to uninstall or change a program I noticed something I've never seen before... Nothing. Not a single program shows up here. Now in the past, using OEM disks of course, there would be a numerous amount of programs, ranging from the 3rd party junk, all the way to what looked like windows programs. This is the first time Ive ever seen this blank.
Before I move any further with installing my drivers and whatever software my hardware needs, I want to make sure this is normal. Should there be anything listed here after doing a clean install and before restoring my drivers? Or did something go wrong during the installation? One last thing to add, I did install Samsung Magician to see if it would show up here and it did, now it says 1 program installed on the bottom of the window. Because of this I don't think there's an issue with the list of programs populating. Thank you for your help!
So I believe my title is self explanatory, but nonetheless here's what's going on. I have a Toshiba Laptop; P50T-A, which was originally shipped with Windows 8 OEM. Meaning it had all the junk Toshiba deems necessary to have on a brand new laptop. In the past I have always used OEM disks to do a “clean” install of windows. Afterwards I would go through and delete whatever programs I didn't want. This time however I decided that I wanted to decide what would be on my laptop, so I went ahead and purchased the full version of Windows 8.1 PRO from Microsoft. I backed up my drivers, and went ahead with the install. For the most part everything went well, however when I got to the desktop I immediately jumped into the control panel to open up the device manager, and the “uninstall or change a program.” Device manager looks like it's supposed to, with a ton of icons letting me know I need to install drivers, however when I jumped over to uninstall or change a program I noticed something I've never seen before... Nothing. Not a single program shows up here. Now in the past, using OEM disks of course, there would be a numerous amount of programs, ranging from the 3rd party junk, all the way to what looked like windows programs. This is the first time Ive ever seen this blank.
Before I move any further with installing my drivers and whatever software my hardware needs, I want to make sure this is normal. Should there be anything listed here after doing a clean install and before restoring my drivers? Or did something go wrong during the installation? One last thing to add, I did install Samsung Magician to see if it would show up here and it did, now it says 1 program installed on the bottom of the window. Because of this I don't think there's an issue with the list of programs populating. Thank you for your help!
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