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mbpark · 09-03-2012, 03:44 PM

My father in law brought his PC (eMachines) over yesterday.

It had a dying hard drive. No recovery DVD either, just a partition. And it restores all the OEM crapware if you choose to use it, and have to spend hours uninstalling and removing the garbage. Plus, all the crap they add on is a security risk waiting to happen!

No problem. You can download Windows 7 installation media from a legit source (Digital River) and install only the OS and what you want using the product key on the side of the PC. Granted you will not be getting a free version bump, but you will get a PC free of all the bundled crap on it that is legit and can be activated.

I put in a 500gb SATA drive, and installed Windows 7 Home Premium, the nVidia drivers, LibreOffice, Avast!, Google Chrome, CutePDF, Adobe Reader, and all the patches.

When I was done, the machine was much faster, with much less crap on it.

Link here at bottom of page: http://superuser.com/questions/28055...tion-iso-files

I recommend this if you get a PC from the store.

I can tell you at work that we take pride in building our images the right way, and that we do put in the right drivers and test it relentlessly. This lets me do the same at home and not have to deal with the OEM crap.

09-03-2012, 03:44 PM	#1
mbpark Lecturer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Carmel, Indiana Posts: 761	Downloading OEM CDs from the Internet My father in law brought his PC (eMachines) over yesterday. It had a dying hard drive. No recovery DVD either, just a partition. And it restores all the OEM crapware if you choose to use it, and have to spend hours uninstalling and removing the garbage. Plus, all the crap they add on is a security risk waiting to happen! No problem. You can download Windows 7 installation media from a legit source (Digital River) and install only the OS and what you want using the product key on the side of the PC. Granted you will not be getting a free version bump, but you will get a PC free of all the bundled crap on it that is legit and can be activated. I put in a 500gb SATA drive, and installed Windows 7 Home Premium, the nVidia drivers, LibreOffice, Avast!, Google Chrome, CutePDF, Adobe Reader, and all the patches. When I was done, the machine was much faster, with much less crap on it. Link here at bottom of page: http://superuser.com/questions/28055...tion-iso-files I recommend this if you get a PC from the store. I can tell you at work that we take pride in building our images the right way, and that we do put in the right drivers and test it relentlessly. This lets me do the same at home and not have to deal with the OEM crap.