Crapware

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 3 Posts

I just posted the article No crapware on Microsoft Store computers . Quote: : I just posted the article No crapware on Microsoft Store computers . Quote: : I amount of trial software on most store bought PCs is disgraceful and only confuses the consumer. I have seen PC's advetizing...

Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 6 Posts by 4 People

It was so full of crapware (software I did not want and did not ask for), it blew me away! At least 3 for years for free, then the advertisements and attempted installs of crapware would not have bothered me could install is the Google Chrome browser, so I'd hardly say its full of crapware. @bliss007

Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 7 Posts by 5 People

Windows 7 boot times slowed by PC builders crapware by up to 2 minutes apple only computers that are crapware free. http://www.nordichardware.com/news,10154.html 161195 by Paarl 0 11/1/2009 10:34:43 Re: Windows 7 boot times slowed by PC builders crapware by up to 2 minutes if true...I am going

Friday, August 15, 2008 - 25 Posts by 12 People

Funny, Linux doesn't have any bloatware. sudo aptitude install bloated-crap-1.1.5Great. J st great. Now my McAfee for Linux doesn't work. Thanks a lot.use WINEDEBUG... warn+allUbuntu does. I've got a few installs of it where having OpenOffice on it is pointless.[deleted]Exactly, I saw...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 29 Posts

But I have a new category I hope will become well-known in the software community. Crapware! Bloated I would hardly call IE8 crapware, I find it pretty good actualy.IE 8 is bloated, buggy and slow There are many types of warez out there. Software subcategories, such as adware, spyware, malware. But I have a new category...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 5 Posts by 5 People

Story : http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-selling-crapware-free-pc Not only from Microsoft, it won't come with the usual "crapware," though it won't be a clean install either Just build your own, its cheaper and you won't have any crapware installed unless you do

Friday, November 06, 2009 - 13 Posts

Option which would enable me to no install all the crapware (or selectively install what I want more of the extra stuff - and I'm using Crapware generically as some of the ThinkVantage stuff seems fine and good Just got a new loaded T400s today, with the 64GB SSD drive. After removing the recovery partition and some other obvious ...

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 15 Posts by 11 People

Is the first Google result for elemental crapware. Now everyone will be confused.But Daddy, WHY did So I downloaded Elemental from I-play. http://www.iplay.com/deluxe.aspx?code=111259870 It looks like Stardock has secretly... changed its name to Gastronaut Studios and Elemental is not really a turn-based strategy game but is actually a really...

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 20 Posts

Stick with Windows, it just works. "Jasper" <nomail@mail.com> wrote in message news:OK$e8bjhJHA.5692@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Stick with Windows, ... it just works. > Actually, all Ubuntu can afford is Alias as their "Marketing Department" !!!"Bill Yanaire" <bill@...

Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 8 Posts by 3 People

Agreed, but how do you determine the boot time accurately. You Quote: times like 2m 44s. When I boot a PC I often have a ... problem to determine just when it has finished and is ready to do my bidding. Certainly I can't measure it to your acuracy... I think I've missed something nuqian , who are you talking to?Actually, I thought I was talking to the PCPro heirarchy. Various...