Who Installs the Most Crapware?

Barence writes "PC Pro has done a thorough test of the software bundled by nine of the leading laptop manufacturers to find out who installs the most crapware on their PCs. Manufacturers such as Acer add as much as two minutes to their boot times by stuffing their machines full of bundled software, with own-brand proprietary software being the worst offender. HP's bundled apps, meanwhile, have a memory footprint of more than 1GB. PC Pro has also reviewed three pieces of software which promise to remove rubbish from your PC — with mixed results."

Comments

Pretty easy to see the answer.

[moogied]

Grandma does.

Re:Link to the latest crapware cleaner

[Gerafix]

Will it also delete all my scat pr0n as I sure wouldn't lose those many terabytes of data that took me many a month to collect.

Re:Even better

[Anonymous Coward]

Sadly, that method doesn't work. That bug just wipes /home. (And to be pedantic, it's the logging out that triggers it. Logging in as Guest is fine, just as long as you never plan on rebooting or logging out.)

But even after logging out, all the crap is still there, hiding in /Applications and /System and /Libraries.

And, thanks to Apple's decision that "uninstallers are complicated" not even dragging the crap to the trash is enough to remove it: taking a page from Windows, Apple sprinkles their crap around the /System folder. Kinda like Windows and its C:\WINDOWS directory.

This is why - and again, Windows users might find this familiar - simply updating Apple apps requires a reboot.

Re:Lenovo

[that IT girl]

I f***ing hate PDFs. Passionately. I didn't even realise this added to my nerd cred.