useful or not??

That depends. Some of the OEM programs are useful because they support special features of the PC. Example: My Sony laptop has a backlit keyboard. The settings can only be done with the Sony Manager (unless I want to change it in the registry).

So, you have to check what functions those programs perform and whether you can perform those in other ways.

alexm said:

acer laptop with windows 7 home premium,about a year ago. Still has a lot stuff of acer this & that which to my knowledge does not seem to be useful. can I remove any of these or not???

Can you make a list of them, most if not all can be uninstalled, I will look at them, I have a Acer laptop
Jerry

alexm said:

thanx jerry...will get back with that Info later. Sun. afternoon (yawn),, lol .

Also give me your model # & please fill in system spics. https://www.sevenforums.com/general-d...tml#post256049
Jerry

alexm said:

model # aspire 7736z acer arcade deluxe acer gridvista acer system acer assist acer acer recovery management acer updater identidy card welcome center

Please also fill in your system spec as requested by bongo. This is quite important!

Keep identidy card may help if you call Acer
You can deleted the rest Windows 7 has most of it built in & if you find out you want it later you can download it at Acer
Jerry

alexm said:

acer laptop with windows 7 home premium,about a year ago. Still has a lot stuff of acer this & that which to my knowledge does not seem to be useful. can I remove any of these or not???

Hi alexm - be very careful about what you delete - to be safe, make a disk image backup before you start deleting things in case you run into trouble - then at least you will be able to recover. :):):)