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always, to the point i have my own installation drive with windows and all the useful programs i use in a HDD
Don't forget all those crap IE Tool bar and other like Ladybug weather app oh my godOriginally Posted by thonidy
Yes, always. Without preinstalled third-party software Win works better and i don't need that trial antivirus, fake ad-blockerŅ and battery optimisers
Always. Reinstalling Windows 8.1 the first time on a laptop was a nightmare though when I did it but I somehow got there in the end.
Yes, tend to find from experience it gives me a lot less headaches.
Only systems that don't get fresh installs are the Linux installs, which tend more towards rolling releases
Desktop MSI B550M Mortar, Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB DDR4 3200, 1Tb NVMe SSD, 2x480GB SATA SSD, 4Tb + 2x2Tb HDD, 3x monitors, Windows 10 Pro 64bit
Server MSI Z170A Gaming M7, Intel i7-6700K, 16Gb DDR 2400, 120Gb SATA SSD, 1Tb WD Black HDD, 4x 4Tb HDD in RAID5
I might uninstall some stuff, but I don't do a clear install.
Yes I always do a clean install on laptops, I always build my own desktops so they start out clean anyway.
Definitely. I cannot stand customized bloatware versions of operating systems. Like, they actually make me proper mad... I go straight for a clean OEM install of whatever OS I want to use!
Depends on the make.
I normally buy a business Dell machine for my laptops, and they tend to come with very little bloat - there's some useful Dell utilities, and perhaps an AV (though sometimes you can opt-out of that during ordering). So don't tend to fresh install those.
Lenovo's always came with so much bloat, that it was straight to Windows install media and formatting it.
I own a copy of windows 7. Why would I want to do anything other than a fresh install?
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
Almost always. I am system builder so most of my work is normally done from the ground up. Full customization.
Here's another reason to always do a clean install.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02...erfish_killer/
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
We sell pc's and laptops at my shop. Laptops are sold as the come from the factory but we do remove a lot of the installed crap.
Refurbished laptops we install from an OEM disk using the license on the case.
New build PC's we do from scratch.
Anyone getting a wipe/reinstall due to a virus etc we use an oem disc, not the recovery partition, unless they specifically ask for it.
Good on you, man! That's how I would do it too
For my machines, I always do a clean install, mainly because I built them myself. I haven't bought a pre-built system, laptops excluded, since the late 1980's.
For laptops, well, my current one is ... um ... a bit long in the tooth. I keep looking at replacements, but haven't yet jumped. One criteria would be access to installation media and hardware drivers, so that I could do a clean install. And by "media", I DO NOT mean a disk image allowing me to reload a disk image with all the crapware too. If I can't get that, then an absolute minimum (or I won't buy) is drivers so I can install my OS of choice, whatever it may be, set up MY WAY, with the options and choices I want.
So, via a slightly different logic, even laptops are, or will be, clean installs.
My answer to the QOTW, therefore, is .... hell, yes. Why on earth would I want all the junk the manufacturers dump on it? And, do I trust them not to have hidden crapware, even spyware, too? Nope.
And when I build for someone else (rare, these days) it ALWAYS gets a clean build, or is supplied, at their request, OS-free. If it's built, they can supply an old reused OS, or a new one, but I only put on legit licensed OSs.
I've certainly seen situations where I doubt the .... ummm ... veracity of software supplied, and if so, I won't use it. What I might risk personally, and what I risk if I'm supplying in the course of a business, are different. For business, the risks just aren't worth it.
So, even building for others, the QOTW answer is yes .... or OS-free.
No. Whatever you do, how can you be sure that other softwares, even including Windows, won't leak your privacy?
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