Would rather proxy hugs and kisses from a Gigabyte booth babe
I wasn't wrong though - it was a six-pack job (as in - I drank a six-pack while typing it)
The OEM stuff that gets installed on the PC is usually OK/good/excellent (designed for the computer) - it's the 3rd party stuff you need to get rid of.
Sometimes it's hard to separate the 2.
A lot of the stuff is often the best way to get the gear working as it's designed and allows tweaks/speed that aren't standard.
Things that speed up hard drives/transfers, allow extra power to USB charging ports, run optimised drivers/tweaks for the networking, activate soundcard settings etc.
Hard to differentiate from the stuff that you use vs the extra bloat - laptops are the worst, but just about everything tries to install "antivirus", "backup", "media" stuff that you don't want.