On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:24:11 +0000, Clive Page
wrote:

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Does anyone have experience of which brands are least infested, or on which it's easiest to remove all the junk?

Any. If running W10 then you can download a copy of W10 installer from
MS and just install a fresh / base copy and only add what you want
yourself. ;-)

https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/downlo...77631-3330946/

The chances are it will detect all the hardware automagically and will
also authenticate itself the first time you go online. I've just done
such on a friends - kids laptop.

Cheers, T i m