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Advice on cleaning bloatware off of a new PC (www.bestbuy.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I helped my 77 year old mother purchase a new laptop, and I want to be sure to get all the bloatware off of it, and set her up with with some better privacy options. I am aMac guy at home so I haven't done this kind of thing for many years. (I use Windows at work, so I'm quite familiar and capable, but obviously I have to rely on IT knowing what they are doing (they don't)). I did make sure to get the pro version of Windows 11. I'm going to set her up with Proton mail I think. This is the computer that is coming:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-thinkbook-16-g6-abp-amd-in-16-touch-screen-notebook-amd-ryzen-5-with-16gb-memory-512gb-ssd-gray/6565272.p?skuId=6565272

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago (18 children)

Wipe the operating system entirely and reinstall it from scratch. That would do a lot of it. And if the only thing she's really going to do is browse the internet, you might consider installing mint instead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you’re staying with windows and re-installing anyway (recommend this), make a ‘data’ partition, then link my documents, pictures etc. To identical folders on the data partition. Save user files on the data partition only.

That way, next time to reinstall it’s not a big deal at all, just relink the data folders. Your data is never touched and re installing is easy.

Or use Linux ;)

Edit: Something like this.

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