mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2008 | windows, crapware, hp, quickplayHP has a very annoying set of QuickPlay buttons along the top of the keyboard. They are very easy to accidentally press, triggering the full-screen QuickPlay program which covers the whole screen. This is another piece of classic CrapWare. I could find NO OPTION in the program itself to disable it. Thankfully, you can use msconfig to keep the quickplay program from running at startup.
Quoted: Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 08 2008 | roxio, crapware, uninstall, windows
Piece of S*** Roxio Crap-ware is popping up a dialog constantly that its trying to install the Roxio Media Manager.
I have no idea what brought this onto my system, but I'm sure I don't want or need it.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 18 2007 | crapware, pc, software, windows, sony, vaio, boot, performance
Walt comes down hard against crap-ware. I also appreciate that he's nailing Sony/Microsoft for the slow boot times of a modern PC.
Quoted: But as I rediscovered recently, often what you're forced to do instead is to spend hours as a digital maintenance man wading through annoying and confusing chores.
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Restarting took over three minutes, and a cold start took more than two minutes. That suggests the computer is loading a bunch of stuff I neither know about nor want. By contrast, a brand new Apple MacBook laptop, under the same test conditions, restarted in 34 seconds and did a cold start in 29 seconds. - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 18 2007 | pc, crapware, windows
I would pay $50 more for my PC to come with JUST VANILLA WINDOWS - and not all the crapware that is added on to a new PC.
No AOL.
No helpful SONY or DELL utilities.
No Real Player.
No Yahoo toolbar.
No Video player (although it's lame that Media Player does not have a DVD codec out of the box).
No Anti-Virus.Even though I use them, I'd rather not even have the Google Toolbar or Firefox pre-installed. They are trivial to download from the net.
Quoted: PC makers walk fine line with 'crapware' | Computer makers tweak their approaches to avoid alienating customers while still trying to milk third-party software's cash cow.Images: Bogged down by bloatware? | April 18, 2007, 4:00 AM PT | Ina Fried
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