"Decrapify" D255 Pre-Installed w/ W7

My mom got a D255 netbook that had Windows 7 pre-installed on it and no recovery flash drive that would allow for a clean install. It has a lot of bloat/crapware and I was looking for some recommendations on what to keep and what to remove or for any alternative programs. Explanations about questionable programs would be useful. Direction to other helpful resources would also be appreciated. My goal is to make the netbook as lean and user friendly as possible as my mom is not that computer savvy and the majority of her use will be checking e-mail and facebook, basic word processing, listening to music, and uploading photos. I could probably figure things out on my own, but I'd feel better getting input from other more confident/experienced users. I also don't want to downgrade to XP. Using The PC Decrapifier showed the following programs:

() Acer VCM.lnk
() Adobe Reader Speed Launcher
() HotKeysCmds
() Netflix.lnk
() Persistence
() igfxtray

() Acer Crystal Eye webcam by Liteon
() Acer Games by WildTangent
() Acer Registration by Acer Incorporated
() Acer ScreenSaver by Acer Incorporated
() Acer Updater by Acer Incorporated
() Acer VCM by Acer Incorporated
() Acer ePower Management by Acer Incorporated
() Acer eRecovery Management by Acer Incorporated
() Acrobat.com by Adobe Systems Incorporated
() Adobe AIR by Adobe Systems Inc.
() Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX by Adobe Systems Incorporated
() Adobe Reader 9.1 MUI by Adobe Systems Incorporated
() Atheros Communications Inc.(R) AR81Family Gigabit/Fast Ethernet Driver by Atheros Communications Inc.
() ENE USB Card Reader Driver by ENE
() Identity Card by Acer Incorporated
() Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver by Intel Corporation
() Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology by Intel Corporation
() Launch Manager by Acer Inc.
() McAfee Internet Security Suite by McAffee, Inc.
() Microsoft Office 2010 by Microsoft Corporation by Microsoft Corporation
() Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition [ENU] by Microsoft Corporation
() Microsoft Silverlight by Microsoft Corporation
() Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable -x86 9.0.30729.17 by Microsoft Corporation
() MyWinLocker Suite by Egis Technology Inc.
() Realtek High Definition Audio Driver by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
() Synaptics Pointing Device Driver by Synaptics Incorporated
() Welcome Center by Acer Incorporated
() Windows Live Essentials by Microsoft Corporation
() Windows Live Sign-in Assistant by Microsoft Corporation
() Windows Live Sync by Microsoft Corporation
() Windows Live Upload Tool by Microsoft Corporation
() eSobi v2 by esobi Inc.

Thanks!

 

I have the same computer and have removed all those marked in red. Some of those programs are trial versions (eSobi, MyWinLocker, etc), others are just crap.

 

Thanks a lot! That was exactly what I was looking for.

 

Don't remove the eRecovey application (until you make "rescue disks"...that will be the only way to restore your OS should things go bad at a later date. Once you make the "System" disks (3 DVDs worth) and the Driver disk (1 DVD) using the eRecovery ap, you can remove it, as you will be able to boot into the recovery program with the first recovery disk. Other than that, I've removed exactly what Genome has, with no issues as well.

 

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