Comments on: Removing pre-installed software from a new PC

By: BeadDoctor

BeadDoctor — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:35:25 +0000

Hay All.
I already found a de-crappifier for Dell. What about Toshiba!!! Mom and I bought a laptop at around the same time. This is moms first experience with computers. The crap on her computer is just plain nasty. Pop-ups and sales ads that just won’t be removed. I think they hide them so they can not be removed completely. With more and more older folks getting involved with computers they deserve to be treated better! Can anybody tell me where to find some help?

Thanks
BeadDoctor

By: Stickman

Stickman — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:26:55 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, P.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:56:47 +0000

To follow up from my earlier concern – I used this crap-cleaner when setting up a new Dell machine this week. It was a little ‘hit and miss’ and took a couple of goes at clearing everything, but this is caused by the utility simply triggering some un-installers which like to grab control of everything on the machine, causing the utility to lose track of what was running.

Otherwise, top job!

By: Techno~

Techno~ — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:17:22 +0000

Nice find Stickman – I bought a new Dell laptop about 8 months ago and haven’t had the courage to sit down and waste a few hours of my life cleaning all the shite that came pre-installed on it.

Tonight it will be cleaned!

By: Peter Venture

Peter Venture — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:57:56 +0000

Perfect! Thanks for the hint. I have just bough a Dell PC and now used this nice little program. Finally my new computer is free of crap. Thanks.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:08:26 +0000

There is one little thing I noticed which stopped me in my tracks. I fired up the app and was offered to ‘remove un-necessary start-up items’. I did not want to continue as this seemed like a very sweeping statement.

Perhaps the next screen is a list of these I can select from…but I did not want to take that chance.

I would worry that anything important (or semi-important) was removed without a second thought.

By: polymorph

polymorph — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:17:47 +0000

It was only this weekend I decided not to bother reinstalling XP on my Dell laptop because I couldn’t be arsed de-crapping it again.

Now I’ll have to find another excuse!

By: Phantom

Phantom — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:25:55 +0000

Perfect timing! Just ordered a new Dell for my niece and getting it delivered here first, so I can get rid of all the sh1..that Dell pre-install and set things up properly before it goes off to sit in an 8-year-old’s bedroom.

Your link could not have come at a better time!