Later today I'll pick up a new Sony SZ670, which is a great lightweight laptop. Sony, however, is (in)famous for many gigabytes of crap including nagware, bloatware, time-limited demos, advertising, and various other junk. In fact, reviews of this laptop are superb except for that one detractor.
One choice is to erase the hard drive and do a clean install of Vista Business. I've just been told that this is a difficult process with Sony as it does not come with restore disks, and when you generate them with the laptop you get disks that loads all the junk as well as restoring the OS!
Does it make sense to install CCleaner and let it run in a rather unlimited and unsupervised mode? I understand that safest use of CCleaner requires serious skills that I may not have, but is that true for a new machine as well?
Thanks, gurus
