I have a number of computers that I’ve purchased used/refurbished via ebay and the ones that came with Windows operating systems were completely clear of bloatware.
A friend got a new desktop a few weeks ago and it was loaded with crap. We spent well over an hour cleaning up the mess. The system, as received, was crippled as it was almost impossible to do a task without something popping up.
One would naively expect that the ebay stuff would have the crapware and the new ones would be clean but the opposite seems to be true.
We’ve only purchased two new computers over the past decade and both were direct from Dell and both were clean.
GeekUninstaller is a neat program with a single .exe file, so it is not actually installed on the computer.
I like it because it also searches the registry and other directories for files linked to the one being uninstalled. Other uninstallers can miss those linked files.