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Removing crapware on new Sony VAIO laptop
Hi, I just bought an ex display Sony VAIO and I'm just having a play about with it, familiarising myself and ideally looking at removing any possible crapware before I create a recovery disk.
First up, do I need to use Sony's Vaio care/care rescue software to do this? I just want a bare bond machine with windows 7 on it and would rather do without all this unnecessary software.
I also had a look at uninstalling some programs manually and noticed there are some strange stuff on there relating to AxtivX. Weird stuff i wouldn't even know how to type on this keyboard in all manner of foreign languages- Windows Live Mesh AxtivX and some foreign words, there's quite a few of them and they all appear to have been installed on the same date. It's got an NVidia Geforce with Cuda graphics cards. Is this normal? I hope it's not malware..
Any tips on how I should proceed with optimising my computer, ridding it off unnecessary crapware?