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Suppose I purchase a laptop from Lenovo. Do I have a surefire way to easily decrapify the laptop?

Reformat the computer?

I do this on 100% of my computers now. I thought there was a risk of losing some functionality like the touch screen, but everything works and far better than when I bought it.

But if you install Win10 don't you just get spyware/adware/crapware direct from MS then? (asking, I don't know, not a regular MS user)

Having done this in the past year... kind of. I view it as a lesser brand of evil though. Also it's possible to turn off telemetry.

Cortana still sucks though.

Can you? There was a security report posted last week on here recommending that enterprise users rotate their accounts to prevent some of it.

I think Candy Crush or something was default, but thats just pre-installed games. I think there was links to some websites too.

The problem is pre-installed crapware. Windows seems fine.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

To expand:

Lenovo's LSE used UEFI to redeploy the binaries thanks to Microsoft's wonderful Windows Platform Binary Table.

Microsoft's default Disk Management system cannot remove EFI partitions (in all cases), and you need to.

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