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Originally Posted by Arkit3kt
A clean install would clean everything up and then you decide what you want to install on your system, plus you don't have to worry about uninstallation registry entries and wasted space from a previous program. Many people including me highly recommend you do that. It will really do your computer a world of good.  |
Yes, that would be the best way of getting rid of all that stuff. I looked at your clean install guide and it appears to be very complete, if just a bit daunting--I rather prefer the kind of install where you click on a button.
In any event, my original question remains: which of the Lenovo utilities are worthwhile and which are not? Without having done much research yet, I think I would want to keep the hard disk protection utility, as I don't know of an XP equivalent. System update seems like a convenient thing to have as well.
On the other hand, the other day I briefly lost wireless net access and I wasn't sure whether to use the Lenovo stuff or the XP stuff to sort it out--turned out to be the router's fault. I am also unclear whether the Lenovo system restore utility does the same thing as the XP system restore...my T61 came with a hidden partition on the C: drive that I think Lenovo uses for restore purposes, but I don't really know.
Regards,
Richard