Title: Lots of crap installed; XP Home Media Center creates problems; no HP says no warranty with clean install of XP Pro
Product review: There is a lot of crap (various software trials) that are difficult to purge from this pre-loaded computer.HP phone support told me that they don't want buyers putting XP Pro (clean install) onto the machine. In fact, it voids the warranty. Further, HP doesn't provide drivers for Ethernet and other hardware - practically nothing is available on the downloads portion of their website for this machine.XP Media Center doesn't work with Palm Pilots.(By the way, if you want to do a clean install anyway, to avoid the blue Stop screen, first change the file structure to IDE.)
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