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post #1 of 6
5/3/08 at 8:21am
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There was a lot of gunk pre-installed on the Acer 6292 portable I bought about 6 months ago (eNet, ePower, ePresentation, eDataSecurity management etc, etc.), running under Vista Business (now with SP1). These make boot up very slow.

It has been suggested elsewhere (specifically in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general News Group) that these are not very useful and could be got rid of. I would like a second opinion before I uninstall these.

Specifically, are these interrelated - e.g. can I uninstall some (e.g. eDataSecurity) without affecting others (e.g. eRecovery) ?


I am a bit cautions about uninstalling as the Acer did not come with a recovery (or Vista) CD, and I would have no way of going back.

Any opinions ?
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post #2 of 6
5/3/08 at 10:24am
Acer don't ship any laptops with recovery CD's, there's a seperate partition on the hard drive that you use instead.
From memory Ithink you can create a recovery disk using eRecovery.
I've taken all the apps off my laptop as they are pretty much duplicted in Vista as standard and have had no problems
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post #3 of 6
5/3/08 at 1:58pm
Before you uninstall anything, make sure you use ERecovery and burn a copy or two(2 sets just in case one doesnt work) of the restore DVD's (use DVDs as it will only require 2 disks where CD's take 6 or 8). Thatway, if you uninstall something that you really need (find out later) you can always put your laptop back to the configuration its in at burn time.
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post #4 of 6
5/3/08 at 4:44pm
I had the same problem with pages loading slowly etc and a buddy on another forum had me try this and it is running really great now and I never had to delete any of the Acer utilities either.
try this: press the Win key; type cmd; press Ctrl+Shift+Enter; and then hit Alt+C to confirm the elevation prompt
Then
type these commands, hitting enter after each line and then rebooting the computer on completion:
netsh(enter)
interface(enter)
tcp set global autotuninglevel=highlyrestricted(enter)

Now reboot the laptop
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post #5 of 6
5/4/08 at 2:43pm
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Originally Posted by saugen48 View Post
Before you uninstall anything, make sure you use ERecovery and burn a copy or two(2 sets just in case one doesnt work) of the restore DVD's (use DVDs as it will only require 2 disks where CD's take 6 or 8). Thatway, if you uninstall something that you really need (find out later) you can always put your laptop back to the configuration its in at burn time.
er... lets say I did that, and then I uninstalled the whole of the 'empowering technology' suite. When I went through the motions of doing this, it warned me that all e<Apps> would also be uninstalled (including eRecovery).

Would I still be able to use the eRecovery generated disks to get back to square one - without the 'eRecovery' program there?
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post #6 of 6
5/4/08 at 6:18pm
It should, however, part of the ERecovery utility also offers the ability to do a complete backup from time to time. Dont know that I would want to be without that. Before you uninstall any of it, try the fix that was suggested first
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