Hi, I have heard a little about removing bloatware from XP and would like to know more about this and where I can find good advice and guides. Please would people point me in the right direction. Will
Hi, Bloatware - large amounts of code / apps that that take up cpu and ram time as well as disk space entirely needlessly. This is not an area that I know much about - but from what I've read vista could be said to suffer from bloatware i.e. loads and loads of 'features' that are not needed, add no real value to the computing experience and in the worst case scenario cause conflicts on the machine that result in BSOD. I believe (but please don't quote me on this) that XP also suffers from this phenomenon. From the reading I have done it appears to be an accusation levelled at Microsoft operating systems regularly and is one of the reasons to transfer to any Linux flavour of your choice (I've chosen Ubuntu on and old laptop). I have heard of people who have delved into XP and removed large portions of code that they don't want with significant reductions in disk space and (I believe) conflict issues. As I've said this is not an area that I know much about - that's the reason that I'm posting on a web forum about it! Will.
Software that has lots of features and requires considerable disk space and RAM. Normally pre-installed on new computers. They are usually not any good unless you buy the subscription. Here is a nice list of examples. A few are free, but that doesn't help. People don't want their computer loaded with junk before they even turn it on. QuickBooks Trial NetZero Installers Earthlink Setup Files Corel Photo Album 6 Tiscali Internet Wanadoo Europe Installer Get High Speed Internet! Internet Service Offers Launcher Dell Search Assistant Norton Ghost 10.0 Norton Symantec Live Update MS Plus Photo Story 2LE MS Plus Digital Media Installer McAffee Norton Internet Security Google Desktop Google Toolbar AOL US AOL UK MusicMatch Jukebox MusicMatch Music Services Wild Tangent Games (Dell/HP Game Console) Norton AntiVirus 2005 Norton Security Center Norton AntiSpam PC-cillin Internet Security 12 Corel Snapfire Plus SE Yahoo! Music Jukebox Vongo Office 2003 Trial Assistant Norton Protection Center HP Rhapsody ESPN Motion Dell URL Assistant Orange Internet Digital Content Portal Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer Norton Internet Security muvee autoProducer 5.0 AOL Install Run Registry Entries Desktop Icons Startup Menu Items Reset IE Home and Search Pages Corel WordPerfect Roxio RecordNow Sonic DLA Sonic Update Manager Sonic RecordNow Audio Sonic RecordNow Copy Roxio MyDVD LE Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 Quicken 2006 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Microsoft Office Activation Assistant 2007 Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 14 Roxio Express Labeler
Also includes useless software (i.e. you don't need it or want it) that can end up on your computer when you buy a new device with an install CD. e.g. Ever notice how EVERY MANUFACTURER wants to somehow get their photo management application onto your computer (and a desktop icon and and a quick start icon and....) Be carefull when they give you a choice of install options and the largest disk space user is always the one the manufacturer marks (Recommended) cause it always has the extra junk they want there for themselves.
