where do you stand on immediately reinstalling Win 10 on a branded PC that comes with all that bloatware?

[neiler0847]

I have happily owned many DELL machines. But one of the things I dislike about the branded pre-built PCs is all the crap that they put on their standard image: trial versions of software, branded utilities, etc.

I recently had cause to re-image my 4-year old DELL laptop. It had been purchased with Windows 8, and subsequently upgraded to Windows 10 during the free period. I wasn't going to go back to the DELL system-recovery CD, even if I could find it.

So instead I just downloaded and put a fresh Windows 10 install on. It worked brilliantly. Windows instantly recognized that my hardware had a valid operating system license, and everything worked like a charm. I didn't have to re-install a single driver. And all of the DELL-isms were gone!

It made me wonder. Did I just get lucky? Or should I follow the purchase of any pre-built system with an immediate re-image with base Windows 10?

Any thoughts?

 

[USAFRet]

If it comes with bloatware...full wipe and reinstall a clean OS.

Having Win 10 fully functional after a clean install is not unusual. I've had many systems do exactly that.

 

[atljsf]

full wipe and full repartition

i don't need a 30 gbs recovery partition or something like that