Uninstalling preinstalled HP programs

[helland]

Ok, so after a hard drive failure on my Packard Bell ENTK85 I bought a "used" but unused hard drive with windows 7 professional already on it. The hard drive came from a HP laptop and with it a lot of programs and drivers meant for HP computers. I have tried to uninstall them, but only get an error message saying "_ERR_SYSTEM_NOT_SUPPORTED"

I would like to get rid of these extra programs, but they refuse to be uninstalled. It is starting to get annoying as I'm getting frequent error messages from them saying they arent working properly. They don't appear on startup, but do pop up after booting, rebooting or after a while.

I hope i gave enough information if someone can help with these things

 

[USAFRet]

Could be those programs (and the OS) are looking for something HP specific.

In any case, for a used drive or PC with a preinstalled OS and other data...your first move should be wipe and reinstall the OS. No telling what is actually in there, or where it came from.

 

[popatim]

You can get that with HP wireless card when the card is no longer found. Go into safe mode and delete any hardware that you dont actually have from device manager and you should also be able to uninstall the HP stuff too.

 

[helland]

Thank you for your answers! I formatted the drive and installed a clean working OS. It's now working fine.