New computer help

I just got a new computer. It has a ton of stuff on it. I have no clue what is safe for me to remove from the computer and whats not. I have tried googling what programs I need and dont need but I am not having any luck. And with my recent computer meltdown I had (accidentally deleted a boot file from my other computer) I dont want to mess everything up again.

The computer didnt come with any discs. No OS disc, nothing......

Any help would be appreciated! Thx

 

You could try posting some images of your add/remove list on your computer. When you got the view of the add/remove list press "print screen key" on they keyboard and save them and load them up here for us to few.

 

decrapifier is a decent app that we always used to run on new machines at the computer store i used to work for, other then that post a list and people here can help ya on what you can remove with out troubles.

 

And, just to add: check to see if there is a recovery partition - many OEM machines are shipped with one if there are no disks included.

 

Ok here are screen shots of what is on here......

 

Yes, and the user should create/burn a recovery disc from the recovery partition.

 

A lot of the HP stuff could be removed. I'd review it and remove unneeded HP programs. And, what about the Yahoo! stuff? If you won't be using it, then uninstall it.

 

Don't uninstall anything until you've created the recovery DVD's, they may not be part of the Recovery partition but accessed via the Start menu *HP* folders with all the data required on the main partition. Uninstall the wrong HP package and you'll make creating recovery discs very difficult.

 

You have either an HP or Compaq. Create a set of restore DVD's as suggested by satrow. When I did it for my son's Compaq, it only allowed me to do it one time. Then, invest in an external USB hard drive and do regular backup images as suggested by Halo. You will save yourself a lot of headaches if you ever get infected with malware or your system becomes corrupted.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01867124&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us

 

Lots of good advice, Make a recovery disc/s as suggested , but another one I just used was Seagate disc wizard- it will copy your hard drive to another (best to keep same size if you do have that recovery option, as it will save that as well. Otherwise I did experiment with it, and it will copy to a different size hard drive, so they are pretty cheap right now- best with a caddy.- I did it with 8 partitions with different windows versions and setups, and it strunk the partitions on my 1.5 tb hard drive, onto a 1 tb hard drive- All worked o.kSeagate disc wizard is a free download.
Just thought I would pass on this little snippet to others:cool

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

 

Ok... I would like to make a disc to use in case something does happen. But I want to know what programs I dont absolutely need for my computer to function. When we got our Dell there were a ton of random programs that I never used. And I had to pay someone to clean it up for me.

So I want to try and figure out what I can remove from this computer so I dont have to go pay someone to help me. I have deleted what I knew I wont use (because I knew what the program was) but half of these programs I have no clue what they are and if I need them.

 

This is what is bothering me.... I have included 2 screen shots of Task Manager. There are 66 programs or processes running. I want to know what is making this computer so slow. Its brand new so you would think it wasnt slow. However it takes forever to reboot. And it has a serious lag.

 

it has 4GB

 

Running W7 64-bit, I think - what CPU is it? Pressing the Windows key+Pause/Break will bring up the properties page so you can give us that info, also what WEI (Windows Experience Index) rating does it have?

How much free space is on the hard drive?

If it's a laptop may feel slow because the CPU is in power-saving mode, when you really start to work it hard, it should run the CPU at 100% rating, then it'll feel faster.

 

Another Screen Shot

 

Well, I just did a little search on your PC, the stats look ok, the parts are all good but it seems that it just doesn't gel; it happens sometimes, you can put all the good parts in one box but the performance is below par somehow. CNET review and HP specification page.

Creating the Recovery discs.

Once you have the discs created, verified and put away somewhere safe, we'll see if we can talk you through clearing out any useless software and getting it running a little quicker.

 

After you've made your backups, one thing you might try is to disable everything in the msconfig Startup list temporarily, see if the machine speeds up. If so, then you can start selectively trimming that list.

In fact, you might post a screenshot(s) of the startup list - I'd be willing to bet it's pretty extensive.