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| Thread ID: 124759 | 2012-05-17 21:39:00 | M$ Charging $99 To Remove OEM Crapware | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1275940 | 2012-05-18 03:14:00 | I love ya, Speedy! I DO! But - I gotta reserve judgement until I see the whites of their eyes. (Gads! I hope there aren't any Brits here tonight!) Nope I'm definitely not there i'm here |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1275941 | 2012-05-18 03:19:00 | The problem is what they consider NOT to be crapware (eg Norton ??) I'd consider a PC 100% free of crapware if it emerges from the factory containing only Windows+updates and drivers (of the non-intrusive variety), and perhaps Adobe Reader/Flash and a fully functional copy of Microsoft Office. Anything more is not crapware-free. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1275942 | 2012-05-18 03:28:00 | Not Adobe reader that is really Bloated and there are far better pdf readers anyway | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1275943 | 2012-05-18 03:38:00 | Not Adobe reader that is really Bloated and there are far better pdf readers anyway Or at least some PDF reader. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1275944 | 2012-05-18 03:46:00 | re HP's 'announcement' Hmmn , cant find any other reference to this at all apart from the one PCW news page (& some sites quoting from that link) Not even mentioned at all on HP's news site (that I can find) , not a good sign www8.hp.com Lots of info about HP job loss's etc etc , so will they really turn down that extra cash for crapware ?? This is the same company that told us they were getting out of the PC business :banana :banana |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1275945 | 2012-05-18 04:01:00 | Nope I'm definitely not there i'm here OK then! Damn the torpedoes! Don't fire until ------------- < Oh -- I think I said that already > |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1275946 | 2012-05-18 04:45:00 | AND --- HP's M$ Certification number on the case is NOT the real license number. Actually it is, its the other way around -- When places like HP / Dell produce machines they use a image and license thats allowed on multi machines. Its not uncommon to have 3 or 4 (or more) PC's all HP's all of the same Model, with all the same factory installed COA. You can get that COA from various software, but if you tried to reinstall from fresh, MS DVD/CD and use the key, while it will install it wont activate, even over the phones/ Help desk. You cant imagine, HP manually entering thousands of COA's on each separate Machine before its shipped. But the COA on the outside is a real COA only on that PC. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1275947 | 2012-05-18 05:02:00 | I'd consider a PC 100% free of crapware if it emerges from the factory containing only Windows+updates and drivers (of the non-intrusive variety), and perhaps Adobe Reader/Flash and a fully functional copy of Microsoft Office. Anything more is not crapware-free. Well I would add a bit of anti-malware, CCleaner, Foxit and an email client as well. Crapware? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1275948 | 2012-05-18 05:11:00 | Well I would add a bit of anti-malware, CCleaner, Foxit and an email client as well. Crapware? I'd give you that: it is free software after all... But Norton, McAfee etc is definitely crapware. :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1275949 | 2012-05-18 05:20:00 | If I ever bought a brand-name PC it would be a format and reinstall as soon as I got it. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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