Curious to know what actual performance gains you got (not boot to log in, has nothing to do with performance) from the "Clean Install" after "blowing away" the image on the disk that it came with. Let me guess, you have no recovery partition either.
Gps3dx wrote:
@JustinThyme - Have I understood correctly that you got multiple G752/1 ?
i'm curious to know if you made benchmark comparision between Asus OEM windows compared to freshly installed windows.
as the OS has so much different drivers, I don't think any comparison can be "fair" enough to claim either way.
what is certain that, at least with win10, that a clean install solves many "upgrade-from-win7/8" issues, and you got the privilege to block MS keylogger even before you get into the desktop for the 1st time ( which is only possible with fresh installation ).
Yes I have multiple machines but I'm not going to do a fresh install to end up back as square one as the proof is seen simply by looking at multiple posts of benchmark results of the same models to see there is no performance improvements gained from a fresh install. One machine was upgraded from Win7 and another from 8.1 with zero issues. If I had problems that could not be solved by upgrading then I may consider the fresh install route bit with a G74sx, G751JL and G751JY the upgrade went perfectly.
Key logger can be not enabled on the initial setup of the machine or after. Settings>privacy>general>Set "send Microsoft information about how I write" to off. Then there is another while you are there scroll down to speech, inking and typing and click "stop getting to know me. Personally my laptop isn't a hot bed of illegal activity and I've never heard of any privacy violations as a result. I'm not about to bother reading their 17,000 word privacy statement and try to digest it either. If they really wanted to "spy" on you its not going to be overtly, the source code will be well hidden in the kernel.
Two differences between fresh install and factory image. With a fresh install you have to go through issues just like this post, download the proper drivers, hope that you were smart enough to save a copy of the support folder to get software that is not on their website or use the factory image and remove what you don't want with something like CC cleaner that not only removes but wipes all traces in the registry as well that is a lot faster.
In the end there is no difference in performance if you take both directions to the same state and if you are really worried about a conspiracy theory that M$ is watching you it would be better not to install any of their OS's and go with a Linux distro instead but good luck with drivers for that!
