In the old days, Dell and Compaq provided OEM install disks so that you could reformat and just install what you want. Nowadays, they give you a recovery disk or tell you to make your own. Which means that your only real choice is to remove everything by hand or buy another OS disk.
And if you ever have to recover, then you get to remove everything by hand over again.
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