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So, I have had my current HP laptop for about 1½ year now, and naturally, crap builds up exponentially, so I had my first real cleaning of my poor laptop.
What surprised me the most was all the crap that came preinstalled on this poor laptop. I am pretty sure I have removed at least 5 GB of preinstalled shit that I have no use for. Why do companies insist on installing multiple suites of software on laptops which, to be fair, already have limited storage and CPU power available.
Bye bye to:
Cyberlink (4 different programs, no idea what they do, but they have never been used, 3GB worthless shit)
HP game demos (30 different demos or random games)
Steam (broken)
CS (broken, needs to be reinstalled)
TF2
Oracle Crystal Ball (no more Economics Management Models)
Eviews 6 (thank god I'm done with Statistics II)
Soon:
IBM SPSS 19 (just need to confirm that I passed my Theory of Science and Methology II)
Also, managing my msconfig reduced the start up time by about 15-20 seconds, and removed stupid graphic interfaces (eg. when I wanted to turn down the sound using my keyboard, my computer would minimize Starcraft 2 just to show a graphic of the sound being turned down a notch).
Boy do I wish that I had done this when I bought this laptop.
So, be good to your laptop, clean that bitch once in a while.
 
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On January 15 2012 21:53 Grovbolle wrote:
So, be good to your laptop, clean that bitch once in a while.
Or just format and reinstall at arrival.
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On January 15 2012 22:08 Aelonius wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2012 21:53 Grovbolle wrote:
So, be good to your laptop, clean that bitch once in a while. Or just format and reinstall at arrival.
That probably works as well :D
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that works unless the reinstall disc just reinstalls all those suites as well, you need to have a clean windows disc for that ^^
as to why these suits are in there - most of these programs are either stuff like 30 day trial antivirus which you need to buy afterwards, or software that includes ads. meaning, that if the customer keeps usting it, the companies that made those suites get money. So, in order to make that happen, these companies give retailers some moneys so that these retailers install their suites, and that's why you end up with those suites on your retailer machines: advertising and potential money for third party companies.
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Be grateful! They are the reason you can buy a laptop for $500.
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On January 15 2012 22:32 coplice_ wrote:
Be grateful! They are the reason you can buy a laptop for $500.
Maybe in Canada.
I paid 9.000 Kroner for this bitch. Which, at the highest rate of conversion is still around 1200$
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On January 15 2012 22:40 Grovbolle wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2012 22:32 coplice_ wrote:
Be grateful! They are the reason you can buy a laptop for $500. Maybe in Canada. I paid 9.000 Kroner for this bitch. Which, at the highest rate of conversion is still around 1200$
Are you sure that you can't pay 500 for a laptop in Denmark? I could technically pay 1200 for a laptop as well, but the performance difference as you could imagine is quite substantial.
In other news, I'd recommend getting a Desktop unless you move around a lot in your daily life, especially for gaming.
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On January 15 2012 23:07 IntoTheheart wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2012 22:40 Grovbolle wrote:On January 15 2012 22:32 coplice_ wrote:
Be grateful! They are the reason you can buy a laptop for $500. Maybe in Canada. I paid 9.000 Kroner for this bitch. Which, at the highest rate of conversion is still around 1200$ Are you sure that you can't pay 500 for a laptop in Denmark? I could technically pay 1200 for a laptop as well, but the performance difference as you could imagine is quite substantial. In other news, I'd recommend getting a Desktop unless you move around a lot in your daily life, especially for gaming.
I could if I would I guess 
I don't have room for a desktop, so I just play on my laptop, don't play that much, so I'm fine with it, but I need a decent laptop to play SC2, D3 etc.
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On January 15 2012 23:16 Grovbolle wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2012 23:07 IntoTheheart wrote:On January 15 2012 22:40 Grovbolle wrote:On January 15 2012 22:32 coplice_ wrote:
Be grateful! They are the reason you can buy a laptop for $500. Maybe in Canada. I paid 9.000 Kroner for this bitch. Which, at the highest rate of conversion is still around 1200$ Are you sure that you can't pay 500 for a laptop in Denmark? I could technically pay 1200 for a laptop as well, but the performance difference as you could imagine is quite substantial. In other news, I'd recommend getting a Desktop unless you move around a lot in your daily life, especially for gaming. I could if I would I guess I don't have room for a desktop, so I just play on my laptop, don't play that much, so I'm fine with it, but I need a decent laptop to play SC2, D3 etc.
Aah, okay. My laptop's terrible but it's more for school since I quit serious gaming. Play LoL (casually) these days instead of anything big enough to cause problems to my craptop.
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Can I have your TF2 hats? :p
I should probably clean my main computer too (not a laptop though), damn you windows XP, for rotting on me so quickly!
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On January 15 2012 23:55 Tuthur wrote:
Can I have your TF2 hats? :p
I should probably clean my main computer too (not a laptop though), damn you windows XP, for rotting on me so quickly!
I don't think I have other hats than the Gastly Gibbus
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Why would they not put extra crap on your computer? Cross-selling is a part of any successful business.
The cost trade-off analysis is also simple.
1. Extremely low # of people who would NOT buy a laptop because of bloatware
2. Extremely high # of people who do not know they exist because lack of technical knowledge
3. Low, but better than 0% chance that people will buy something just because the computer tells them too (hello Norton, Mcafee, Corel, etc.)
We hate them, and I would always rather do a full Windows reinstall than chance missing some crap bloatware taking up .005% of my resources. But it would be just rather silly for companies to stop doing it.
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On January 16 2012 00:17 jacosajh wrote:
Why would they not put extra crap on your computer? Cross-selling is a part of any successful business.
The cost trade-off analysis is also simple.
1. Extremely low # of people who would NOT buy a laptop because of bloatware
2. Extremely high # of people who do not know they exist because lack of technical knowledge
3. Low, but better than 0% chance that people will buy something just because the computer tells them too (hello Norton, Mcafee, Corel, etc.)
We hate them, and I would always rather do a full Windows reinstall than chance missing some crap bloatware taking up .005% of my resources. But it would be just rather silly for companies to stop doing it.
Problem is when Windows 7 comes preinstalled and I am not really a super tech person either.
Also, I get the business side of it, that doesn't mean I can't hate them 
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Understandable.
And AFAIK the partitioned Windows reinstall usually puts all the bloatware back anyways. It sucks for the certain group of people who aren't technical enough to know how to get them off properly, but also realize it's there annoying them to death.
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Try CCenhancer + CCleaner it cleans up alot !!
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#Jacosajh - Exactly, well at least I got rid of a lot of it (I think), so baby is running just fine again.
#LunaSea - Will probably do that, thanks.
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