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| Thread ID: 126427 | 2012-08-27 04:04:00 | HP & "no more crapware" Joke of the year | 1101 (13337) | PC World Chat |
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| 1297245 | 2012-08-27 09:01:00 | Im always stunned by this crap, Good hardware, Good OS, ruined by pre-loaded crap. How does that work for them? Might as well buy a 5 year old dell infested with viruses, the end result is much the same. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1297246 | 2012-08-27 09:04:00 | Thats because you got the crappy version. They have a crappy line, and a not so crappy line (probooks). You have to pay extra to get less of a reaming.Well I went halves with my son. He had enough for half of the crappy line. HN had 40% off crap in the weekend, he is pleased, I'm pleased. Everything I looked at before the sale in his price range I said no too |
plod (107) | ||
| 1297247 | 2012-08-27 09:14:00 | As long as they give you the disks. HP has decided that putting a windows image with the crapware preinstalled onto the HDD is a good idea. It might be possible to use the CD key with a normal Windows disk. If not, you could always activate with a patch, since you've already paid for it. Better than putting up with their crapware rubbish anyway. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1297248 | 2012-08-27 09:28:00 | Assuming you have one or I guess you can just download one of the internet seeing as it's windows 7. Last time I owned a computer with a recovery partition + bloatware it was running XP and we were still on dailup 0_0 | icow (15313) | ||
| 1297249 | 2012-08-27 09:28:00 | I remember the press release, I also remember thinking that it was a classic Tui moment :D | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1297250 | 2012-08-27 10:42:00 | Well I went halves with my son. He had enough for half of the crappy line. HN had 40% off crap in the weekend, he is pleased, I'm pleased. Everything I looked at before the sale in his price range I said no too My crappy HP just won't die. No idea what I'm doing wrong, Its been years, literally. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1297251 | 2012-08-27 12:29:00 | When the screen comes up to load the custom HP software (after the initial Windows setup) just press Alt + F4 and the screen will go away and you dont have to install any of it, you are left with a clean install of Windows pretty much. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1297252 | 2012-08-27 21:43:00 | Thats because you got the crappy version. They have a crappy line, and a not so crappy line (probooks). You have to pay extra to get less of a reaming. Nope, wrong. I was talking about a BRAND NEW Probook |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1297253 | 2012-08-27 21:49:00 | When the screen comes up to load the custom HP software (after the initial Windows setup) just press Alt + F4 and the screen will go away and you dont have to install any of it, you are left with a clean install of Windows pretty much. Nope, not on the probook. You only get the choice to not install Norton& not to register with HP. Of course its still there anyway (norton) & still has to be uninstalled This is a business class laptop. The whole point of Win pro is that it can be connected to a Windows Domain Server That implies the IT dept will be setting it up & connecting to the domain .It dept will have their own software they need to install, not all this pre-loaded rubbish |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1297254 | 2012-08-27 22:01:00 | Nope, wrong. I was talking about a BRAND NEW Probook More fool you then. |
Metla (12) | ||
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