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• Bloatware and You

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 152
  With Windows 7 now released and available on new computers, I would expect folks to be looking at new systems. However, new computers seem to be shipping with more and more bloatware (or as I prefer to call it – crapware ) these days. PC manufacturers include this junk software at a cost to the companies that ...
  1 week ago

• How Crapware Slows Your PC

  
  Tech-Ex — Authority: 480
  Virtually all Windows PCs contain crapware, the software added to PCs before shipment which includes demos, trials, offers, and the like. While Microsoft itself sees fit to put crapware-less (depending on your point of view) PCs in its retail stores, most OEMs are not so kind. Now a study has shown just how much ...
  1 week ago

• Crapware makes PCs take more than twice as long to boot up.

  
  The Windows Club — Authority: 628
  This study has put nine machines from the major manufacturers through a battery of tests designed to highlight where they’re being run ragged by unwanted trial software or crapware. Acer, Sony and HP are the worst offenders, as far as installing crapware on laptops/PC’s is concerned!The Acer, for instance, offered ...
  1 week ago

• Uninstall and remove toolbars, trialware programs, preinstalled junk easily with PC Decrapifier

  
  Avinashtech — Authority: 130
  Most of the new computers these days come preloaded with so much of junk like OEM tool bars, Trial-wares, some pre-installed tool bars and many more. Most of these preloaded stuff is crap for most of us and not useful at all. Even many programs gets installed by the user himself with bundled software’s which these ...
  1 week ago

• Acers Bloatware Adds 2+ Minutes to Boot Time, HP, Dell and Sony Not Much Better [Bloatware]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  PC Pro looked into the bloatware included on new laptops by major manufacturers, measuring how memory, HDD space and boot times are negatively effected. And good lord, its worse than you thought. Bloatware, the crap software that manufacturers pre-install on their computers that include demos, media software and ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft Stores Selling PCs Without Crapware

  
  mickerlodeon — Authority: 134
  TechFlash’s Todd Bishop regarding Microsoft’s new retail stores: People visiting Microsoft’s new store in Scottsdale, Ariz., have started noticing something interesting, apart from its shameless similarities to Apple’s retail outlets. The computers on display in the Microsoft Store come without any ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft Retail Store PCs Will Be Crapware-Free, But I’m Still Unsatisfied [Microsoft Stores]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
    No one likes uninstalling bloatware, trialware, and craplets from their freshly unboxed PCs. Microsoft finally acknowledges this by skipping the unnecessary third-party software in Microsoft retail store PCs. Continued here: Microsoft Retail Store PCs Will Be Crapware-Free, But I’m Still Unsatisfied ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft Retail Store PCs Will Be Crapware-Free, But Im Still Unsatisfied [Microsoft Stores]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  No one likes uninstalling bloatware, trialware, and craplets from their freshly unboxed PCs. Microsoft finally acknowledges this by skipping the unnecessary third-party software in Microsoft retail store PCs. Thats truly great, but they should do a little more than that. I realize that the key reason behind all that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft Retail Stores Feature "Crapware-Less" Signature PCs

  
  Tech-Ex — Authority: 480
  "Crapware" is the term used to describe all the trial, demo, or other useless software frequently loaded on a PC when you buy it from a manufacturer such as Dell or HP. So much of it is installed that many consider such PCs as "crapped up," hence the name. Interestingly, in their Scottsdale retail outlet, first of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft Selling Relatively Un-Crapified PCs

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 557
  Todd Bishop in his Microsoft Blog looks at the PCs being sold by Microsoft in their new stores , both online and brick and mortar. He notes that they mostly lack the bundled 3rd party apps that typically come with OEM systems, often disparagingly known as "crapware."Bishop links to a typical PC sold by Microsoft, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microsofot Store PC’s free from crapware.

  
  Gadgetsteria — Authority: 585
  Purchasing your computer at any retail location or online is hardly the same PC once you actually get a working model back to your house. When booting up your new PC for the first time, you go through normal set up with accounts and such. But one thing that has been a pain for years is the pile of crapware that ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to replace the crappy pre-installed software on your new Windows 7 PC with great free apps

  
  Download Squad — Authority: 753
  Filed under: Utilities , Features , Windows , Freeware , How-Tos , Windows x64 So you picked up a new Windows 7 laptop (or desktop) or youre planning on buying one in the very near future? If you took a look at display models in stores like Best Buy or Fryes, you no doubt noticed that new systems come with ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Android, Distribution, Buzz, Pre-insalled apps and Crapware

  
  About Mobility — Authority: 407
  Responding to Tomi ’s thread on ForumOxford, where he wrote: “The best phone in the world cannot take the mobile phone market, unless there is distribution.” Yes. Which is exactly why Android seems to me that it will be widely adopted. And it will be widely adopted because for device manufacturers it is ...
  3 weeks ago

• I can haz ur data?

  
  Technology for Mortals — Authority: 116
  Snow Leopard cat is growing and he needs to eat a lot.  Just make sure you have your data backed up because he may eat all your data.
  4 weeks ago

• Is Office 2010 Starter Edition the New Crapware?

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 575
  By definition , it will be. Crapware has become the term which is used to describe the semi-useless stuff that large PC builders (Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo, Sony) put on the new computer , hoping to entice the user to buy full versions of the products that are more helpful, and much less annoying than what is currently ...
  4 weeks ago

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