You buy a brand new computer thinking that you’ll keep it clean and fast by installing only the essential software programs but your hopes are dashed the moment your turn on the new PC as it shipped pre-loaded with tons of trial software that are of little or no use.
This may sound funny but it actually makes sense if you can spare some time cleaning the new PC of all these junk trial programs before installing anything new and useful.
No, you don’t have to jump to the Control Panel for removing programs as there’s a free tool called "PC Decrapifier" that can automatically detect and uninstall most of pre-installed software unattended. It will even reset your browser home page and default search engine.
Here’s a full list of programs that PC Decrapifier can remove. It works with most common trialware programs (and browser toolbars) that are developed by OEM partners including Norton, Yahoo, Dell, Roxio, Sonic, Corel, Google and Microsoft.
The software has been around for a while but the latest version (2.0) is a complete rewrite and therefore more stable than ever before. Thanks Sarah.
Related: Spring Cleaning Utilities for your PC
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/remove-pre-installed-trial-software-from-new-computer/4729/
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Reader Comments
Nice find,It does what it actually says PCs preloaded with OEM software and trial applications will be easily removed by Unattending ,creating a restore point always recommendable before uninstalling trail software.Not so that much useful regular PC users for regular PC users, Revo Uninstaller is a good handy freeware.
Written by venkat on 10.01.08
This is classic! I have to install a software which I will use only once to remove other softwares! Why not use plain old “Add and Remove Program” since this is job done once in 3 years (or whatever frequency of buying computer).
Written by Ashish on 10.01.08
No, please uncheck the G toolbar and G desktop. :)
Written by ROW on 10.01.08
Cool… i was searching for such freeware since couple of days… just want to know the trial softwares came along with my brand new vaio…
Written by Kevin on 10.01.08
PC’s nearly always come with bloatware, unlike Macs. All I do is remove unneeded languages and that’s all.
Written by design on 10.02.08
I bought a laptop from HP.. and the first thing I performed on that is a clean install.. formated the drive and installed vista from scratch.. and dear.. its now fast (faster than the newer ones around)
Written by vishnu @ beautiful minds on 10.03.08
Well, i think the title of the post should be; “Bought a New Windows Computer?….”. You won’t find bloatware on brand-new Linux PCs.
Written by Kabatology on 10.06.08