Topic: The PC Decrapifier

[Xessive]

I just came across The PC Decrapifier.

The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trialware and annoyances found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs. You get to see the list of items it detects and then choose what will be removed automatically.

Here is the current list of software and items that the PC Decrapifier can detect and remove.

Seems like a handy tool.

[iPPi]

I used to use it for my laptop.

It was designed to remove all the bloatware and shit off of a Dell laptop that gets installed from the factory, so that the user wouldn't have to reformat their own hard drive in order to use their machine. 

[scottws]

I have it on my USB drive but never used it.

Factory bloatware annoys me because usually they don't give you discs for any of that stuff so if you uninstall Norton Internet Security, for instance, you can't get it back.  And you need to uninstall it if you want to try out other AV programs or software firewalls.

NIS sucks anyway... I'm just using it as an example.

[Xessive]

Yeah, if you want the stuff back you have to do a factory reset.

It's really just a matter of setting priorities. Most of the time the stuff is just dead weight but sometimes it can be handy, even if just until the next best thing comes along.