Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Shortcut to Bluetooth Tethering? Date: 4 Jan 2025 15:10:44 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net SIExL/EuNkbsrB+8VX2JaQDdw0i3XVw64sMYbMkCcmU80RfGiV X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:WIdNtCZKKeTubRxdCn6iBS/cDBs= sha256:DYt0uNiR4cWg867j7fHTFoJERtR2zwUb7G02gsSzKlM= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2571 Arno Welzel 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.