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MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99
walterbyrd writes about a program from Microsoft to clean up bloated base installs, for a price. From the article: "Microsoft even offers up numbers to show how detrimental this OEM-installed crapware is to your system. Microsoft claims that Signature systems start up 39 percent faster, go into sleep mode 23 percent faster, and resume from sleep a whopping 51 percent faster compared to their crapware-ladened counterparts. (A 'Signature' system is one without crapware). But now, Microsoft will offer customers the opportunity to give their Windows 7 PC the Signature treatment by bringing it to a Microsoft Store and paying $99, according to the Wall Street Journal."
I tell everyone to use a far better decrapifier. Those who have listened always thank me profusely every time the subject comes up. BTW - Where is the source code for the one you mentioned, so I can verify that it really does what is promised, and doesn't add malware in the process?
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I did it to my Dell at home for free.
Hopefully, that means you installed a decent Linux-based OS instead.
Re-installing Windows 7 without the crapware is still crapware in my opinion, since your DRM'd computer is still going to ask you to prove that your copy of Windows is genuine every couple of weeks (with yet another newer version of its genuine validation tool every time).
And how, pray tell, does Windows give them reason to complain when they are running Linux?
I notice a not too surprising trend in this thread:
A) The people posting are primarily Anonymous Cowturds
B) Those people - or likely that person - consistently makes phenomenally moronic statements
But thanks for posting so many times. It cheers me up and reinforces my belief that only a moron would post pro-Windows drivel on Slashdot.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun