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Shane:
I hate factory default installs. SO much crap installed with them.

Instead, since you dont need to backup anything do a fresh install  yourself. :-)

Before you do go to the asus page for your system and download the network drivers. Then save them to a thumb drive. Take the thumb drive out, and boot off the Windows 7 cd. Once in the setup have it format the windows drive and install fresh on it.

Once it is installed put the thumb drive in and install the network drivers. You can now get online. You can then go to the asus page and download the rest of the drivers. Once done do all your Windows updates.

Now the system is ready to go and you are ready to install your programs. If you like I can give you a list of free programs I install on all my customers machines, includes Librea office, antivirus, Firefox, java, flash, cd burning, backups, and some more and they are all free :-)

Shane

cnnashman:
To do what you recommend i need the CD from Asus correct? Or can i use a copy of the iso file and burn it to CD.


I also noticed there is another method with something called the uifc or something along those lines.

Shane:
Burn the ISO you got to a cd. You now have a clean Windows 7 cd :-)

Boot off the cd and do as I said in the last post :wink:

Shane

cnnashman:
Thanks a lot much appreciated,  i think i would like to know how you do your computers, i didn't even know you offered your own pre configured computers, i'll have to really consider that for myself and friends in the future.

Thanks for the quick response as well.

Shane:
I own and run a computer repair business :-)

So I do a lot of reinstalls.

After Windows is installed and updated run my system tweaker
http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/simple_system_tweaker.html

Then all these programs go on all my installs and are all free:

Zip program - 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

PDF reader and flash - www.adobe.com

Antivirus - Free version of avast - www.avast.com

Backup - fbackup - www.fbackup.com

cd-burning - CDBurnerXP - http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download

Memory cleanup - My own program CleanMem - http://www.pcwintech.com/cleanmem

Firefox - www.getfirefox.com

ISO burner - ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

Java - java.com

Office, Word, Excel, ect. - Libre Office - http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

Email - Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

Picture editing - 2 programs
   Paint.net - http://www.getpaint.net/
   Google Picasa - http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe

Shane

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