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mechmike0034
04-11-2006, 09:55 PM
It’s 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 anyone’s bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I’m 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. It’s 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.

http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38

EDIT: Somebody at Dell got bent out of shape, evidently... (http://www.yorkspace.com/pc-de-crapifier/)

I set up a new Dell desktop over the weekend - sure coulda used this...
zero2dash
04-12-2006, 07:15 AM
I set up a new Dell desktop over the weekend - sure coulda used this...

:agree:
We just got a Dimension 3100 last Friday that I had to setup.
All that uninstalling (including having to boot into safe mode to get rid of all the McAfee crap)...*sigh* :shrug:
raimin
04-12-2006, 07:22 AM
dang, i wish i knew about this last week, close to an hour sitting there uninstalling everything
modena
04-12-2006, 07:46 AM
good find, thanks for the link, this will come in handy!
ray
04-12-2006, 09:18 AM
every time i get a dell for a family member, i blow it away and do a clean install with the stuff they actually need.
kgsilvas
04-12-2006, 09:50 AM
Excellent! I'm going to try it on one of the new machines here and see how it works out. If it hoses it, I'll just re-image it with the image we sent to Dell.
ialsohaveadream
04-12-2006, 05:34 PM
Sweet! It took me over an hour to remove all the crap when I bought a laptop for my mom. Good idea for software.
JaQnAbOx
04-12-2006, 11:36 PM
when i used to work for the computer on campus...the first thing we did before we even gave out the computers was format the damn thing and clean it all out. the staff will install their own spyware and stupid useless programs....
Hiro
04-13-2006, 08:11 AM
Bah, Mechmike beat me to the post yet again!

I'll be testing this out later, sounds fun.
Maarchk
04-13-2006, 09:49 PM
I'm going to reformat my computer back to dell fresh and then run this... I'll let you know how it goes.. Goodbye for now my friends..
bachviet
04-15-2006, 07:17 AM
Nice find. :thumbup:
Maarchk
04-16-2006, 03:34 PM
Hmm i just reinstalled using the dell windows disk. And it was fairly clean. I bet the drivers disk has the junk on it.. Cause i copied the drivers folder over to a external hd and didn't use the 2nd disk and its a clean happy machine. :)

But good find anyways.
ribitch
04-18-2006, 08:27 AM
i love my macs. they dont come with all that crap like a typical pc does...
zero2dash
04-18-2006, 10:57 AM
i love my macs. they dont come with all that crap like a typical pc does...

...yeah, like that price tag...don't forget about that. :P
ribitch
04-19-2006, 05:39 AM
an iMac, mac mini, and iBook are all affordably priced. A powermac does cost more, but that isnt meant to compete with your typical bestbuy/homebuilt boxes.
Maarchk
08-03-2006, 04:38 PM
Just used this today. works wonderfully.

thank you again mike.

mark
bachviet
08-03-2006, 11:24 PM
an iMac, mac mini, and iBook are all affordably priced. A powermac does cost more, but that isnt meant to compete with your typical bestbuy/homebuilt boxes.
You can't buy an iBook for $649 like the Dell E1505.