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post #21 of 30
8/21/06 at 11:34am
This is a little off topic, but I just reformatted my laptop as well with the Dell reinstallation disks yesterday, after trying 2x, it seems at the end of the windows installation it seemed to want to install all the bloatware back on from the OS disk, soon as the initial boot up from the windows install, it gave me a "Please wait, This may take 30 minutes." flashing message. I let it run through the first time and when it was done all the bloatware was back on my system. the second time I tried it, I took the out CD before the initial boot, the message came back and it was looking for the reinstallation disk. I just recently received the disks last month. Luckily I a windows MCE, OEM original disk so I used that and that seemed to work well. Has anyone else have this happened to them?
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post #22 of 30
8/21/06 at 4:21pm
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Originally Posted by teezee1000
This is a little off topic, but I just reformatted my laptop as well with the Dell reinstallation disks yesterday, after trying 2x, it seems at the end of the windows installation it seemed to want to install all the bloatware back on from the OS disk, soon as the initial boot up from the windows install, it gave me a "Please wait, This may take 30 minutes." flashing message. I let it run through the first time and when it was done all the bloatware was back on my system. the second time I tried it, I took the out CD before the initial boot, the message came back and it was looking for the reinstallation disk. I just recently received the disks last month. Luckily I a windows MCE, OEM original disk so I used that and that seemed to work well. Has anyone else have this happened to them?
I hope this doesen't happen to me. Did you insert the crapware software? The lady over the phone said she was sending the cd with the origonal sofware installed, and i was like "uhh ok greattt".
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post #23 of 30
8/21/06 at 4:41pm
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I hope this doesen't happen to me. Did you insert the crapware software? The lady over the phone said she was sending the cd with the origonal sofware installed, and i was like "uhh ok greattt".
No I didn't install it, even though the installation wouldn't complete without the CD, I rebooted and installed the OS thru my OEM original disks, and it worked fine. I was really shocked that dell would try to sneak the bloatware back on my system without giving me an option to load them or not. After that scenario I was afraid to use the drivers and apps disk's. so I just went on the website and dowloaded all the drivers I needed manually. my boot times are very fast now, and I switched to NOD32 from Nortons for my antivirus protection. My "freshly booted" commit load went from (71+ processes) 725+mb to (48 processes) 297mb, so my mission is accomplished. Good luck.
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post #24 of 30
8/21/06 at 5:58pm
If you have the actual OEM version of MCE, then just use that. You won't have ANY programs that came with your Dell but that's okay since most of it is bloatware.
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post #25 of 30
8/21/06 at 7:02pm
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Originally Posted by teezee1000
No I didn't install it, even though the installation wouldn't complete without the CD, I rebooted and installed the OS thru my OEM original disks, and it worked fine. I was really shocked that dell would try to sneak the bloatware back on my system without giving me an option to load them or not. After that scenario I was afraid to use the drivers and apps disk's. so I just went on the website and dowloaded all the drivers I needed manually. my boot times are very fast now, and I switched to NOD32 from Nortons for my antivirus protection. My "freshly booted" commit load went from (71+ processes) 725+mb to (48 processes) 297mb, so my mission is accomplished. Good luck.
Dell must make a lot of money off putting crap software on the laptops. People wont remove it and end up using them, and paying for them. Dell probably gets payed a lot to put that crap on each laptop.
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post #26 of 30
8/21/06 at 9:01pm
Ok, so what I'm reading as that using the reinstall disk Dell has provided me, I'll get the shitware back on my PC? God damnit! I was about to do a fresh reinstall when I was this, haha.
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post #27 of 30
8/21/06 at 10:54pm
You have 30 days to return it, might as well, and spend a little more on the XPS as you said.
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post #28 of 30
8/22/06 at 7:35pm
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Originally Posted by Arck
Ok, so what I'm reading as that using the reinstall disk Dell has provided me, I'll get the shitware back on my PC? God damnit! I was about to do a fresh reinstall when I was this, haha.


No, the Dell CD's do not have the bloatware installed. The previous post about having to wait "up to 30 minutes" is so that Windows XP MCE can install the MCE Service Pack 2 roll up.
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post #29 of 30
8/22/06 at 7:40pm
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Originally Posted by teezee1000
This is a little off topic, but I just reformatted my laptop as well with the Dell reinstallation disks yesterday, after trying 2x, it seems at the end of the windows installation it seemed to want to install all the bloatware back on from the OS disk, soon as the initial boot up from the windows install, it gave me a "Please wait, This may take 30 minutes." flashing message. I let it run through the first time and when it was done all the bloatware was back on my system. the second time I tried it, I took the out CD before the initial boot, the message came back and it was looking for the reinstallation disk. I just recently received the disks last month. Luckily I a windows MCE, OEM original disk so I used that and that seemed to work well. Has anyone else have this happened to them?

Dell does not have a CD with there bloatware installed. This message "Please wait, This may take 30 minutes." Is the message that comes up after the OS is installed and Microsoft is performing the roll up 2 updates. For more information see this knowlege base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900325
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post #30 of 30
10/28/06 at 5:37pm
the dell b130 Will accept 2gigs=1gig+1gig memory sticks.

i have b130 2gig memory, I know of good online store, where i bought mine if u want
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