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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
> Carlos E.R., 2025-01-02 21:43:
> 
> > On 2025-01-02 16:05, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> [...]
> >>    Now do the same exercise for Windows and Chrome!
> > 
> > Yes, some companies sell their laptops with a lot of customization. Say 
> > HP. This is not bad per se. The recovery feature is good. But the layer 
> > can include apps that slow the laptop while promoting their business 
> > interests.
> 
> Windows itself is still not customized by HP. Recovery is a built-in
> feature of Windows, just used by HP to provide their own tool for it.
> But you can always create your own recovery setup in Windows without any
> tools by HP.

  As I indicated in my earlier response, I think Carlos was referring to
HP's 'Recovery Manager'. That is indeed not a customization of Windows
*itself*, but is *not* using any "built-in [recovery] feature on
Windows". HP's Recovery Manager can - amongst other functions - restore
the system to from-factory condition, *including* all third party
software, from a special reserved 'HP RECOVERY' partition.

  HP's Recovery Manager was on Windows 8.1 laptops (and desktops?), but,
as I mentioned, no longer on Windows 11 laptops (well at least not on
mine).

> And all pre-installed apps can be removed in Windows or you just install
> a "clean" version of Windows instead of the one provided by HP.