Wiping the OEM drive and installing Vista Ultimate

[Guest]

Thanks to all of you who replied to my post earlier today about doing a clean
install of Vista to get rid of all the OEM clutter ("craplets").

I really want to go this route (wipe the drive, clean install Ultimate) but
have one more question. If I do this on a new Dell machine, will Vista
likely have all the needed drivers or will I need to download them?
Downloading could be a real pain--when I went to the Dell site, I couldn't
even find some of them.

Thanks!

 

[Rock]

Thanks to all of you who replied to my post earlier today about doing a
clean
install of Vista to get rid of all the OEM clutter ("craplets").

I really want to go this route (wipe the drive, clean install Ultimate)
but
have one more question. If I do this on a new Dell machine, will Vista
likely have all the needed drivers or will I need to download them?
Downloading could be a real pain--when I went to the Dell site, I couldn't
even find some of them.

The big OEM's usually supply drivers for their hardware. You should contact
Dell tech support to get some good info on this.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Check the Dell website for Vista drivers. Download them to a cd in case the
one driver you can't live without (the NIC driver) is not included on the
Vista dvd.

 

[MAP]

Thanks to all of you who replied to my post earlier today about doing
a clean install of Vista to get rid of all the OEM clutter
("craplets").

I really want to go this route (wipe the drive, clean install
Ultimate) but have one more question. If I do this on a new Dell
machine, will Vista likely have all the needed drivers or will I need
to download them? Downloading could be a real pain--when I went to
the Dell site, I couldn't even find some of them.

Thanks!

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