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@shaylagirl wrote:

Hi everyone,

 

I appologize for this question but I admit to being fairly ignorant as to what needs to be done.

 

I have the B130 and I got the disks from Dell, but I want to be sure that when I do that, all of the excess stuff that's pre-installed on here won't be on here. 

 

My understanding is that if I put in the OS disk Dell sent me and reboot the machine, I'll have the option to install it, correct?  I'm just sick of it taking forever for this laptop to boot up and that stupid Mcafee popping up all the time, and all that other junk on here.

 

I have moved the very few files from this machine to my desktop, so it's as "backed up" as possible.  I didn't install much on here because I knew I'd be doing a clean install at some point.

 

Thank you :)

 

Other than that, I love this laptop, even if it's not top of the line, so far it's been stable and I'm enjoying it *knocks on wood*

 

~shayla

 

In the future, by using the Advanced Forum Search on the bottom of this page, you can quite easily find the answer to this often asked question.

 

No, your understanding is NOT correct.  You'll need to hit F2 to enter bios and make the CD/DVD the first boot device, THEN it will boot to the XP CD.

Thanks Rick,

I did try searching, but what I found was a polyglot of information, hence why my understanding was incorrect; I always attempt to find the answer first before asking :) It can be hard to locate exactly what you're looking for unless you know the specific key words to search for, and I was trying "Clean OS install".

I also wanted to make sure that all the stuff Dell pre-installed won't be re-installed off their OS disks.

However, it looks like, according to Dell's XP Reinstall guide, if I don't Install the Software Applications from the Dell Tools CD, I won't end up with all the excess junk Dell pre-installed.

Yep, utter and complete novice; I just know I don't want all that junk back on there because it's buggin' me having to deal with it.

Thankies!

Message Edited by shaylagirl on 05-10-200609:50 AM