HP pavilion dv7 Notebook PC

[ProspectDotNet]

Been having it for a while.
What can I do to lighten the load and optimize performance? HP has tons of stuff installed on here but I'm not sure what I should delete. Also, what are some common start-up processes that are safe to be disabled?

[Camgaertner]

Well first show us the start up processes and the installed programs. Then we can tell you what can be deleted/removed.

[Skawke]

First thing I would do is a complete reformat, then reinstall the OS again.

[ProspectDotNet]

I have most of them disabled

Start up:

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Working on getting the programs list.

Programs:

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[ProspectDotNet]

What about services. Would that help optimization?

[Rawkfist]

HP has what they call the "HP Advisor", it is unneccesary to have as a boot process and is a real resource hog. I personally just open it once a month to check on HP update stuff and to run a hardware diagnostic scan.

[.:xX[ThunderStorm]Xx:.]

Reinstall the OS.

[Genequil]

Reinstall if at all possible. There is just to much crap on them to begin with.

[theboner]

I would just recommend doing a completely clean install of a windows OS not the recovery partion but a fresh install directly from microsoft. HP does add alot of bloatware.

Other then that just disable every non windows startup process in the msconfig then reenable the ones you want by double clicking on the icon(well for most apps)

[Jordan L.]

Before the necroposters posted in this thread, the last thread was:
10-09-2009 04:39 PM