Wednesday, February 2, 2011

How to Clean a PC of Crapware

What are we talking about?

Most PC's and laptops nowadays come with a tonnes of funky, cute, wing-dingy things installed when you pull them out of the box. As you start using the computer, it seems to want more and more of these 'accessories' and 'plugins' as you start to use the machine.

Many of these programs are OEM from PC manufacturers such as SONY, IBM, LEVONO, HP, COMPAQ, DELL and TOSHIBA.

Although they seem to be fully integrated into the machine, many can (and in my opinion should) be removed. By removing all those little start-up items and programs, it frees up all that lovely juicy RAM for you to use. After all it IS you who owns and works on the machine, not the machine that works on you!

These are tools I carry on a USB stick for computers with problems and they can be used to remove junk or settings left by crapware.

And even better: they are all freeware.

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