Re: Shortcut to Bluetooth Tethering?

On 2025-01-04 16:10, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

Carlos E.R., 2025-01-02 21:43:

On 2025-01-02 16:05, Frank Slootweg wrote:

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    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.

Exactly. Actually, my laptop is a Compaq, which at the time was a second name of HP. The thing came with W7.
It also had an HP tool to update the machine drivers and things, IIRC.

    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.

Yes, but then some of the hardware might not work properly.
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Cheers, Carlos.