Up grade to Win 7 Pro

Today we are getting a new HP 310-1125y. The reason is we do not want the employees to have any access to the preinstalled programs and junk that is normally on an off the shelf computer. The question is. In order to maintain the Touch Screen capability. Do we need to download drivers before hand? We are planning to do a clean install not an upgrade. The reason for all of this is because we are putting a reservation system on the computer and we want that to be the only program they have access to and anyother program management wants on it. Does this make sense?
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Chuck
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The restore/recovery kit is always the same, it's the initial load of software and drivers to get it back to like new, it is never updated with new components. So if you make the Recovery set now or later it's exactly the same, I recommend making it now.

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