Install Windows from scratch. It’s a much better experience. I recently installed 7 from scratch on a cheap two year old Compaq laptop (that’s a HP brand) which

Install Windows from scratch. It’s a much better experience. I recently installed 7 from scratch on a cheap two year old Compaq laptop (that’s a HP brand) which originally came with a lot of bloat and Vista. I didn’t have to download any drivers (Windows Update was clever enough to download them for me), I didn’t have to install any bloat and all the features of the laptop (special buttons, all ports, Wlan, …) work without any problem. I ended up with a squeaky clean fully functional laptop. Windows 7 is pretty awesome by Windows standards. I really don’t know why HP and other manufacturers insist on putting so much crap on their computers when the experience with stock Windows is so much nicer.