Microsoft Windows Vista - Now With Extra Craplets!
Now Microsoft wants to totally control the non-MS software that computer makers put on PCs? What, does MS want license fees for non-MS software, too? And calling other software "craplets"! That's rich!! Pot, meet kettle...
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I'd say the biggest craplet is Vista itself.
Blame it on the other guy...
I think the real problem is that VISTA hasn't been tested and certified to work with VISTA.
Microsoft wrecked the game years ago due to bad architecture.
They let various types of appls just go out and tweak critical parts of the registry to do "neat stuff".
Now if they really wanted to build a secure system, tons of off the shelf software would just stop working.
Introducing the Dell De-Crapifier..
http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38
It’s a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine to a crawl. If anyone’s bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I’m talking about. Just recently, I was helping a friend set up his brand new Inspiron 1300 and it took FOREVER for it to boot up. It’s a very dissatifiying experience to pull a brand new computer out of the box and be spammed with a bunch of trial software. After removing all of the crap, (wich took a significant amount of time) it booted much faster and performed like it should. I kept thinking it would be nice to have an automated way to remove all this stuff. Thus was born the Dell De-Crapifier script.
Ditto for whenever I have to reinstall the original image.