schmibble Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Please pardon this total noooob question. I searched for "oem branded disk" and then just "oem" but neither yielded a single result--which I have to believe is a mistake, since this question has got to be fairly common. I've got an older Dell. It's at the point that I could now use new drivers almost across the board, so I thought hey, why not kill two birds with one stone and reduce some of the installation size at the same time--and there's a lot of gunk clogging up the machine because I'm an inveterate freeware experimenter, so a complete wipe would do a body good. I've got everything important backed up so an installation with some kind of slipstreaming program, integrating drivers and removing the stuff I don't want, seems like a good way to go. However, my windows 7 disk is an oem branded Dell disk, and it has sp1 integrated, so vLite won't work with it unless I jump through a bunch of extra hoops; and because it's oem, rt7 won't work with it at all. I took a look at the Buclean forums and they're about as active as a snake in winter, so there would be little support there in a jam. Ergo, the win toolkit looks like the best option, especially since I'm not a removal fanatic, just want to take out a few things I never use like the media stuff (I use VLC for everything) and IE (I _am_ a Firefox fanatic), a few others. But before taking the plunge into the toolkit, I do need to know if it'll work with my disk; if not, I guess I'll have to deal with the tedium of updating drivers one by one, tolerating the items I'd like to discard, and living with a bloated registry. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etz Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Depends what is modified by vendor, but mostly, yes they do work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiersee Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Within Wintoolkit you can download a fresh and untouched ISO of Windows 7 and use this. Regards, Thiersee P.S.: Happy New Year! :fun: :beerchug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bphlpt Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 @Thiersee, before the OP does that, he needs to verify the has access to an appropriate license key. Cheers and Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiersee Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 @Thiersee, before the OP does that, he needs to verify the has access to an appropriate license key. Cheers and RegardsI assume the OP has a COA on his old Dell-machine; anyway he has an OEM-disk (not Dell-recovery) and he will need the key too. Regards, Thiersee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmibble Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 I assume the OP has a COA on his old Dell-machine; anyway he has an OEM-disk (not Dell-recovery) and he will need the key too.Yes, I have the fancy metallic-colored sticker (I guess that's the COA) and the product key, so I assume that all should be in order. Thx much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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