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I have a Toshiba Satellite with Vista on it. Of course over the course of owning my laptop I, like so many, decided that Vista sucked. I got this idea that I would uninstall Vista and downgrade to Windows XP Pro. As I researched the internet for information on this process I began to find that over and over again anyone who had done this with the same model laptop I have had a night mare on their hands. The biggest problem was drivers, among some other minor ones. At one point I came upon an entry in a particular forum, this one fellow had done what was called a clean install of vista and found that it was actually an excellent OS. The more I looked in to this the more I decided that this would be the thing I would attempt to do.

Fortunately I found a handy little tool called the ABR (Activation Backup and Restore), this handy little app was a life saver and mad this all the easier. The thing about Vista and computer sold to day is a thing called by geeks BLOATWARE!  Bloatware are all the little things that a manufacturer will put on their computers that is absolutely worthless resource hog items. When you do a clean install of any OS you end up with the bare essentials that are the main part of the OS and nothing more. That means that you can add what ever apps you want on your system and only that. This is what I did.

A clean install in a sense gives your computer back to you in a stripped down streamlined manner that allows your computer to actually behave in the manner it should. You will suddenly see just how fast your system should move. It is strongly recommended that you backup anything you want to keep before doing a clean install.

Once I did this I found that Vista is actually a very nice OS and it has gotten a bad rap because of all the bloatware that comes along with it. Here are a few links with instructions on doing a clean install, If you have a copy of the Anytime Upgrade Disc that came with your system then your good to go with this process. first a link to the ABR tool

ABR (Activation Backup and Restore)

Notebook Review.com Vista Clean Install

DirectEdge.US- Installing Vista Clean with No Crapware 

If you don’t find these informative enough them you can simply do a Google on Vista Clean Install. Good luck and I think you will find that once you do this you will never complain about Vista outside of it’s annoying quirks. The truth about Vista is simply this it is just another OS with as many problems as any other and the thing that makes it such a pain is all the Crap that computer manufacturers shove down our throats along with it. Do your self a favor and clean your system.

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