Re: Article: Introducing the Dell De-CrapifierŠ

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:27:33 -0700, Snit <SNIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
chose to bless us with the following wisdom:

http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38
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It¹s a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it
comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine
to a crawl. If anyone¹s bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably
know what I¹m talking about. Just recently, I was helping a friend set up
his brand new Inspiron 1300 and it took FOREVER for it to boot up. It¹s a
very dissatifiying experience to pull a brand new computer out of the box
and be spammed with a bunch of trial software. After removing all of the
crap, (wich took a significant amount of time) it booted much faster and
performed like it should. I kept thinking it would be nice to have an
automated way to remove all this stuff. Thus was born the Dell De-Crapifier
script.

Now, to be fair, I know most all of the major PC manufacturers have similar
practices of installing trialware. I would suspect they don¹t make any
profit on the hardware (or even a loss) and they make their money on the
kickbacks from the software companies. I don¹t know.
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There was a recent discussion about the amount of advertising you generally
get when you buy a Windows box. So much, it seems, people are now writing
software to "de-crappify" Windows machines so they work - not from malware
and garbage that builds up over time but from the way the machine comes.

It makes sense to do so - the amount of trial-ware and ads on most new
machines is extreme.

Step One: Put WinXP CD (not the recovery CD that came with the
computer) in drive.
Step Two: Reboot and let installer run
Step Three: Take driver CD that came with computer and install any
needed drivers.
Done

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