I just bought my first laptop. The Toshiba Terca A3 1.6.
While I am happy with the laptop so far, it suffers from a massive case of software bloat. There is so much rubbish running on there, I'm sure the thing is slugish.
Furthermore, they have left the harddrive as one big partition, where I would prefer 2. One for the OS, and one for all my saved stuff.
The solution seems simple... format and reinstall WinXP.
However, there is some software on there that I figure I might need. Like the little applet that tells me how much battery power is left etc..
If I format, partition and reinstall my own copy of WindowsXP, I will of course loose all those laptop specific apps. Yes?
Where do I then get them from? Are they standard to WinXP? I have been to the Toshiba site and I can't see the apps there.
Also, i got a Toshiba branded CD of Windows XP with the laptop. I could reinstall that, but I figure that it might set the thing up will that bloat of software I mentioned above.
What should I do here?
<font color=purple><b>Brad</b></font color=purple>
While I am happy with the laptop so far, it suffers from a massive case of software bloat. There is so much rubbish running on there, I'm sure the thing is slugish.
Furthermore, they have left the harddrive as one big partition, where I would prefer 2. One for the OS, and one for all my saved stuff.
The solution seems simple... format and reinstall WinXP.
However, there is some software on there that I figure I might need. Like the little applet that tells me how much battery power is left etc..
If I format, partition and reinstall my own copy of WindowsXP, I will of course loose all those laptop specific apps. Yes?
Where do I then get them from? Are they standard to WinXP? I have been to the Toshiba site and I can't see the apps there.
Also, i got a Toshiba branded CD of Windows XP with the laptop. I could reinstall that, but I figure that it might set the thing up will that bloat of software I mentioned above.
What should I do here?
<font color=purple><b>Brad</b></font color=purple>