horseatingweeds

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I've got a Presario sr1000t. Is there a way to do a clean install without the loads of extra stuff they put on there - like the Norton trial?
 
Get your own XP disk, download the drivers needed for the system, install that way. You can also just uninstall the extras after you re-image. Most of the fluff is pretty easy to see what it is if you look in Add/Remove programs. You can also check on the vendor support site, there is probably questions about that in their knowledge base.
 

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Yeah... I managed to do an actual fresh install, but not a clean one. It still had some of that extra vendor stuff. Trouble was, I ended up having to reformat the whole drive. I used some recovery discs I got from Compaq and it only gave me the two options: recover or reformat...

XP runs a whole lot better now.