Dell Vostro 1500

What stuff are people uninstalling from their laptops? Also I accidentally installed Vista a second time onto the hard drive partition, erm how do I delete it lol?
 
Hard to remember everything I uninstalled, McAffee, Roxio, and everything that's called Dell something (except touchpad drivers), and stuff like Media Direct, quickset (not needed for media keys to work), webcam manager, all that stuff. Also disabled some stuff with msconfig.
 
I have xp and there 'bonjour' in the add/remove programs what is it? I've looked at program files and there's only 3 files, I can't actually see what it is, I think it has something to do with apple and wireless but how do I use it?

Also broadcom advanced suite can I uninstall that if I'm using windows wireless manager?
 
The broadcom thing, yes delete it, it's rubbish, window can handle your wireless network just fine. I seem to remember these was some intel networking thing as well (which was always telling me there was a problem with my network even though it was working fine), again not needed. No idea about Bonjour, don't think mine came with that.

There really is far too much bloat on these things.
 
fish99 said:
The broadcom thing, yes delete it, it's rubbish, window can handle your wireless network just fine. I seem to remember these was some intel networking thing as well (which was always telling me there was a problem with my network even though it was working fine), again not needed. No idea about Bonjour, don't think mine came with that.

There really is far too much bloat on these things.
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Cool cheers, pretty sure I deleted another wireless manager yonks so could have been the intel one, prob doing the same as yours which is why I got rid. Bonjour is to do with apple, just found out its to do with sharing songs with itunes so said one person but on apples site it says its something to do with wireless printing but it uses the windows printer wizzard and didn't look any different to how it normally looks. :confused: so still not sure what it does, what I do know though is that I didn't download and install it, by the looks of it from searching google it downloads with updates for itunes/quicktime. I also had safari, apples IE which I removed. :mad:

Yeah I agree about the crap on these, my aunt got a 1520 as a present and that has 70+ running processes, using up tons of cpu and memory, I keep meaning to sort it. :rolleyes: would be nice if it was just xp/vista and drivers installed then you had a cd with all that crap on and YOU could decide what you want installed. :(
 
I think it was the Reg who had a recent article on crapware. Although it's a pest for non-tech relatives, if you don't mind reinstalling the OS, there is actually a benefit. OEMs get paid to put this junk on, subsidising some of the cost of the value priced models.
 
Yeah if you decide to format definitely get rid of the Media Direct and recovery partitions. They're only 6 GB total but you still don't want them there wasting space you paid for, and they do nothing useful. The one time I tried Media Direct (the self booting version) it couldn't play a file and froze :rolleyes:
 
fish99 said:
Yeah if you decide to format definitely get rid of the Media Direct and recovery partitions. They're only 6 GB total but you still don't want them there wasting space you paid for, and they do nothing useful. The one time I tried Media Direct (the self booting version) it couldn't play a file and froze :rolleyes:
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Yeah I pressed the media direct button instead of the power button, on purpose to see what would happen and it wouldn't play any of the files I wanted. :(


In XP, media direct do you just remove that in add/remove programs?
 
Just wondering what video drivers people are using on their 1500s? I've got the latest Dell ones but just noticed they're 156.83 which is ancient. I tried the 169.09s from laptopvideo2go but they gave me tearing during all movie/video playback so were no good.
 
fish99 said:
Just wondering what video drivers people are using on their 1500s? I've got the latest Dell ones but just noticed they're 156.83 which is ancient. I tried the 169.09s from laptopvideo2go but they gave me tearing during all movie/video playback so were no good.
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Thats strange ive been using the 169.09s for a week or so with no problems
 
Just tried the 169.09s again, same result, tearing in all videos. There's one really obvious horizontal tear across the screen which shows up on just about any movie with motion in it. It's kinda like the refresh rate is just slightly wrong or something (even though it isn't). Must be something to do with the drivers not really being for the 8600M GT and not working right with laptop screens.
 
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