Remove HP Software

[Guest]

Hi everyone. A year ago I purchased an HP desktop computer with a 1TB hard drive in it. I use the same drive now, but it still has all of the default HP software. For example, upon booting the loading symbol has HP on it. Also, when refreshing my drive to factory settings it not only puts windows 8 back on it but also reinstalls all software that came with it (HP Games, even my old GPU drivers). Is there a way for me to completely remove all of the HP software but keep my OS as well as all of my data (Documents, Games, etc)? Thanks.

 

[smorizio]

only by buiying a clean os cd and wiping the drive clean and starting over. all you can do now is go to add/revome programs and remove all of the hp bloatware.

 

[caqde]

Hi everyone. A year ago I purchased an HP desktop computer with a 1TB hard drive in it. I use the same drive now, but it still has all of the default HP software. For example, upon booting the loading symbol has HP on it. Also, when refreshing my drive to factory settings it not only puts windows 8 back on it but also reinstalls all software that came with it (HP Games, even my old GPU drivers). Is there a way for me to completely remove all of the HP software but keep my OS as well as all of my data (Documents, Games, etc)? Thanks.

only by buiying a clean os cd and wiping the drive clean and starting over. all you can do now is go to add/revome programs and remove all of the hp bloatware.

It should be noted that because it is an OEM machine that was preinstalled with Windows 8(8.1/10)+ the UEFI/BIOS holds the cd-key used for that OS soooo You will need to install THAT EXACT copy of windows. You can NOT install windows 8.1 on that system if you had 8 preinstalled because it won't allow you to. Feel free to look it up this is an unfortunate disadvantage to the new system they setup but it is the way it is hopefully Windows 10 will make improvements to remove this restriction of not allowing users to input a new CD-key upon installation but as of now if you have an OEM motherboard that uses Windows 8 you can't for instance install 8.1, 8 Pro, 8.1 Pro or their Server derivatives because it will see the cd-key bound to the motherboard and try and use that by default and won't ask for a key.....

 

[Guest]

Thanks. So I would need to have both a clean hard drive, and a new motherboard as well as a clean OS. Would I be able to recycle my current drive? By this I mean use windows to clear it completely.

 

[caqde]

Thanks. So I would need to have both a clean hard drive, and a new motherboard as well as a clean OS. Would I be able to recycle my current drive? By this I mean use windows to clear it completely.

Not necessarily. What I meant was that if you got a disk. That disk would need to have the same OS as the one that was installed. Say if you had Windows 8 preinstalled if you got a clean Win 8 disk from someone and went to install it on your system it wouldn't have the HP software on the disk so it wouldn't be installed on your system (8.1 would be the same except needing an 8.1 disk). Your drive can be recycled the CD-key is attached only to the motherboard no other piece of hardware is effected by this.

As a note if you do install Windows on your old drive you can install without formatting using the custom install function, what will happen to your old data is that it will be moved to C:\Windows.old\ In there will be your old Program Files, Program Files(x86), Windows, and Users folders. Everything else will be where it was and you can delete it safely after recovering an personal data.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. So I would need to have both a clean hard drive, and a new motherboard as well as a clean OS. Would I be able to recycle my current drive? By this I mean use windows to clear it completely.

Not necessarily. What I meant was that if you got a disk. That disk would need to have the same OS as the one that was installed. Say if you had Windows 8 preinstalled if you got a clean Win 8 disk from someone and went to install it on your system it wouldn't have the HP software on the disk so it wouldn't be installed on your system (8.1 would be the same except needing an 8.1 disk). Your drive can be recycled the CD-key is attached only to the motherboard no other piece of hardware is effected by this.

As a note if you do install Windows on your old drive you can install without formatting using the custom install function, what will happen to your old data is that it will be moved to C:\Windows.old\ In there will be your old Program Files, Program Files(x86), Windows, and Users folders. Everything else will be where it was and you can delete it safely after recovering an personal data.

Thanks. I appreciate it, I'll use this in the future when I manage to get around to it.