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To: dayglored

Unless you redefine the word, I call BS on the part about eliminating “crapware”. All the new PC’s come pre-loaded with it on purpose.


11 posted on 11/19/2015 8:45:00 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton
> Unless you redefine the word, I call BS on the part about eliminating “crapware”. All the new PC’s come pre-loaded with it on purpose.

My bad, I meant the stuff that gets downloaded via browser hijacking by ads and such, not the crapware that comes pre-installed by an OEM manufacturer.

These days I only install clean purchased-from-Microsoft releases of Windows (or MSDN .ISOs) so it's been ages since I had to deal with a pre-loaded crapware-laden installation. Those pre-installed systems are a nightmare, and you'll never get back those hours of your life you spent cleaning their awful crap off the disk.

I do computers for a living, and that's just too many hours that I could have spent more productively. Like FReeping. :-)

16 posted on 11/19/2015 9:43:08 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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