PCs preloaded with sheeeeeeeeit

[Darren S]

Just prepping a few laptops for work now. Why on earth do manufacturers preload so much crap on their laptops/PCs?

First to go - Norton, without a shadow of a doubt. Then the five ISP setups, care programs, registration documentation, security turd and other 110% useless bits of crap. These ones even have thumb-print recognition readers...... FFS!

I'm a midge's todger off reformatting the damn things, loading the chipset, gfx, audio and NIC drivers and be done with it. The laptop would then be probably 200% quicker too.

D.

 

[Darren S]

....... PC Doctor 5......... another one for the fire-pit of Deletion.....

D.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Probably got AOL worked into the registry as well.

 

[Gumby]

Reformatting all of them would probably be quicker and involve a lot less effort

 

[muld]

format - install - ghost = winner! even after you uninstall the crap u'll have registry junk issues till the cows come home

 

[Pettsi]

How many clio sport members would prefer a computer preloaded with p0rn?

 

[muld]

How many clio sport members would prefer a computer preloaded with p0rn?

I think you're onto something there!

 

[TheCake]

And even worse, now they don't ship the CD's with new machines you can 'teven format and use the Windows disk to re-install without all the guff.

Sad state of affairs.

 

[ollie]

format - install - ghost = winner! even after you uninstall the crap u'll have registry junk issues till the cows come home

+1

 

[Gareth]

IBMs by any chance?. Same problem here, if the laptops are bought through the coporate system then they automatically get rebuilt to corporate spec before being sent to me. If I special order different specs I rebuild them myself, I recently had a batch of 2k a piece IBM laptops which out of the box were literally useless until rebuilt, pretty disgusting really, I feel sorry for the average consumer who hasn't got a clue how to rebuild a machine and has to live with the sorry state of the dispatched machines.

 

[tommyboy]

Same as my Dell. Had McAfee Useless Security Protection which was ridiculously big. AOL shyte, BT internet tosh, sign up to this and that blah blah.

All gone, anti virus is now AVG Free and ZoneAlarm Pro with a dash of Firefox.

 

[KDF]

format - install - ghost = winner! even after you uninstall the crap u'll have registry junk issues till the cows come home

Good call.. cause thats what I'd do !

 

[McBunny]

just rebuilt a tosh laptop for a bloke at work he wanted the original software back
10 programs in the system tray !

 

[tommyboy]

just rebuilt a tosh laptop for a bloke at work he wanted the original software back
10 programs in the system tray !

:S

 

[McBunny]

yes :S

if it was mine i wouldnt use a recovery disk but i dont have a copy of xp home with me so thats what it has to be

 

[Darren S]

IBMs by any chance?. Same problem here, if the laptops are bought through the coporate system then they automatically get rebuilt to corporate spec before being sent to me. If I special order different specs I rebuild them myself, I recently had a batch of 2k a piece IBM laptops which out of the box were literally useless until rebuilt, pretty disgusting really, I feel sorry for the average consumer who hasn't got a clue how to rebuild a machine and has to live with the sorry state of the dispatched machines.

Spot on. My point exactly.

To me, it's just a ball-ache, crap that ideally I could do without. But regular Joe Public would have to leave all that useless junk on there.

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