Wiping the OEM drive and installing Vista Ultimate

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!

"helpherb" <helpherb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

> 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.

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

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.

"helpherb" <helpherb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8EE59AA4-A56A-4140-A2AC-88A753899893@microsoft.com...
> 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!

helpherb wrote:
> 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!

http://break.com/index/how_to_properly_load_vista.html

--
Mike Pawlak