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This is fair play when the OEM's only want to lard more preinstalled sponsors' crapware and useless utiltiies which interfere with Win7 into their rigs. These throttle the first feather-light Windows and cause issues with all of the freeloaders starting up with Windows.
MS reacted with stasis to this for so long. It was hard to find any resources on clean reinstalling factory OEM on their forums and they actually discouraged it for way too long by making the installer ISO unavailable by legal fiat. Tech enthusiasts who will only run a Clean Reinstalled Factory OEM were made to feel like pirates for wanting to get the most out of their property.
Only recently do they seem to have gotten that having a clean installed OS unhindered by crapware is even a marketable commodity itself. It sure has kept us busy here.