What Software Can I uninstall on new laptop? Help Please

[JJ2012]

Hi guys

A friend has just bought an HP Pavilion x360 for her daughter and it has a load of HP stuff on it and some other stuff what can I uninstall safely for the laptop to run ok - see below:

HP Drive Guard
HP CoolSense
HP Documentation
HP Registration Service
HP Support Assistant
HP Support Solutions Framework
HP System Event Utility
HP Wireless Button Driver

Energy Star
Adobe Shockwave Player
Bonjour
Evernote

WildTangent Games - tried uninstalling this and keeps coming up Error During WildTangent Games Removal one or more of your selected items encountered an error during removal. try again - same message every time - any suggestions how to get rid of this one please?

Thanks very much.

 

[ingtar33]

you can uninstall all of that except hp driveguard and hp wireless button driver (those are actually tied into a physical device/driver)
bonjour is an apple thing, if you have an iphone and itunes bonjour gets installed.
no harm in keeping shockwave
evernote and wildtangent are bloatware
the rest of that junk is just junk; you may need to load into safemode to get rid of wild tangent, it's pure adware-junkware and therefore is a pain to remove.

 

[JJ2012]

Thank you!

When you say load into safe mode what do I actually do please?

 

[ingtar33]

in windows 8/10 back yourself out to the login screen. In the bottom right hand side there should be a power button, click on the reset button while holding down the shift key. this should bring up an advanced settings menu, click on startup settings, then click on enable safe mode. this should load you into safemode.

in windows 7 hit F8 during boot, between POST and the Windows splash screen. chose safemode from the next menu that shows up.

 

[JJ2012]

Fantastic thank you so much