i have a 2 year old HP Laptop, G60 series with an AMD Turian Dual Core RM-70 2 ghz and 3 gigs of ram running Vista. imo, it's never really performed like i thought it should.

how can i strip it down and get rid of all the HP crap and simply reformat it as a XP or 7 system w/o all the add-on crap.

I think I know I need to have it networked with another computer to do it...or maybe the simplest thing is to buy a new hard drive for it... I dunno...TIA.