Preinstalled Software on T43 2668

[jessep28]

I have an IBM T43, Type 2668. I just purchased factory restore CD’s from IBM and reimaged the machine. The previous owner reimaged using their own ghost copy which deleted the service partition and didn't install quite a few drivers. In addition, I was running into abnormal boot up and shutdown lags on a very clean copy of XPP.

With regards to the preinstalled software, there is a lot of it seems to run in the background. Are there any preinstalled services I can safely delete or disable?

Thanks,

Jesse

[Johan]

Welcome to the Forum, Jesse!

As to what IBM-applications you want to delete, that of course depends of which you need so for a star I suggest you see the following threads, as they are all discussing this issue: New Thinkpad: What is YOUR must load software? Must delete? and Thinkpad for my parents! and especially from this post and onwards, and finally T42 w/fresh Win XP SP2; which Microsoft .NET version needed?. You may also want to try search this forum for e.g. "preinstalled software removal", "unnecessary applications" or "remove ThinkVantage programs" or "bloatware" etc. etc.

Johan

[jessep28]

Thanks for the links & keyword suggestions. I performed a couple searches but wasn't using the right search terms.