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Should i make clean windows install after buy new Dell laptop?

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christinalevinee Original post #1
Feb 5, 2018 at 2:32 PM
What you guys think? I got a lot of programs on new Dell 7577, like Waves MaxxAudio Pro, McAfee, SmartByte and a lot of other stuff from Dell.
SaiyanGoku
SaiyanGoku #2
Feb 5, 2018 at 3:30 PM
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omega44-xt
omega44-xt #3
Feb 6, 2018 at 10:26 AM
christinalevinee said:
What you guys think? I got a lot of programs on new Dell 7577, like Waves MaxxAudio Pro, McAfee, SmartByte and a lot of other stuff from Dell.
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Remove McAfee, Windows Defender is a better option. Use Kaspersky or Bitdefender if you want to buy something. Don't remove all apps. Apps like MaxxAudio are nice & should provide various eq settings, etc. There should be a Dell battery related software in which you can configure your laptop to stop charging at a set limit. I re-installed most of the Dell softwares when I did a clean install of Windows 6 months back.

Disable few unwanted softwares from startup & you should be good. If OS is in SSD, it won't matter much.