New, Using Aspire desktop, with Windows 10

Stilako

I bought my desktop to replace an old one, running XP.  I couldn't load the latest MS Office software on it, and needed to migrate to that, so I could help my spouse who IS using it.  I have a laptop running Windows 7, which I have become fairly familiar with over the last few years, but am much more comfortable with XP.  (I miss some of the things we used to be able to do with DOS!)

 

For here, I have a couple of comments and general questions.  First comment is that I've always been annoyed when I want to use a computer, turn it on, and many updates just have to be downloaded and installed before I can get to what I want to do.  From that, I have a wish NOT to have anything in my computer that I don't need.

 

Question coming from that:  Why should I keep Acer Portal, AB Photo, AB Files, AB Media, AB Docs, or the Acer version of Cloud?  I have all of Windows Office software loaded, and am familiar with it.  It also runs on my wife's machine, and my laptop, which aren't Acer brand.  (Those programs all came loaded when I bought this desktop.)

 

2nd Question, which I hope someone can answer:  once an updated is downloaded and installed, is there any need to keep the downloaded file on the hardrive?  When cleaning out my old desktop, in addition to hundreds of files I wanted to transfer, there were at least that many downloaded updates from Microsoft, and from anti-virus software.  They certainly plug up a hard-drive!

 

Thanks

IronFly

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Stilako wrote:

 

 Question coming from that:  Why should I keep Acer Portal, AB Photo, AB Files, AB Media, AB Docs, or the Acer version of Cloud? 

 

2nd Question, which I hope someone can answer:  once an updated is downloaded and installed, is there any need to keep the downloaded file on the hardrive?

 

Thanks

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1) not needed if you don't want to use Acer's cloud services. so you can uninstall it without harming your PC.

windows logo key + x

programs and features

select the software you want to uninstall and click uninstall

 

2) you can do a Disk clean from time to time:

windows logo key + s

type

Disk clean up

and click the first result

then click on Clean up system files

wait until it finishes to scan and then tick on the list what you want to clean up; you will find windows updates too.

 

3) personal suggestion, if you still have McAfee installed, uninstall it and just use the built-in windows antivirus firewall; it will hurt less the system performance than McAfee.

to uninstall it, use this McAfee official tool:

http://us.mcafee.com/apps/supporttools/mcpr/mcpr.asp