Why Superfish could be the best thing to happen to the PC industry in years

[SNGX1275]

@loading ^ For notebook/laptops you can't*.

*You can get somewhat close at some specialty places by getting them to build one for you or you can get a built to order one from a brand - bottom line is you are going to pay for that specialization. Or we can just put consumer pressure on companies to not include as much crap on the initial installs.

 

[Camikazi]

Windows XP search was lighting fast, many times quicker than what came later, with NO indexing needed. It also delivered far more accurate results. Nearly everything Microsoft has done in the last decade has been a step backwards.

Yeah, that is just wrong. Indexing does take longer to finish but once it is done it is much more accurate and faster than Windows XP at searching. There isn't even a comparison between the two, the only way WIndows XP could even come remotely close to the speed of indexed files on Windows 7/8 is if there is only one file and you search in the folder where the file is and even then Windows 7/8 has the file up and ready to click while you are typing out the name.

 

[Darth Shiv]

"Windows XP search was lighting fast, many times quicker than what came later, with NO indexing needed. It also delivered far more accurate results. Nearly everything Microsoft has done in the last decade has been a step backwards."

Uhm, no. This is not usually true at all. The indexed search tends to have the file visible before you're even done typing the name in. This is one of the first things people notice usually lmao.

I remember waiting over 5 minutes just to wait and see if the file was even in XP.

Now I can just type in the file name. By the time you type the file name in, it either has results for you or will tell if there are no results at all most of the time. This is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY faster than the XP search! Far, far, faster.

Perhaps you turned off the wsearch service or something? Even then that should start up upon boot... unless u went far out of your way to keep it off. There's just no natural reason an index search will generally take longer than an XP search! Sorry!


Love or hate M$/Windows, your information on windows searches, at least, is false. Now if you want to argue that the indexing is not worth the resources it uses I could agree on that, but it is still faster either way.

My biggest problem with it is configuring your extensions and what file types to index contents. Also the search syntax is yet another unique search syntax. Google's search syntax works great. Wildcard search syntax everyone knows as well. Not sure what Windows Search uses.

 

[captaincranky]

Come on guys. Don't buy manufactured PC's. Build them!

So you build laptops, do you? Welcome to Techspot!

Original artiicle here: https://www.techspot.com/news/59797-lenovo-superfish-adware.html

 

[JeffDotNet]

I honestly don't think this is going to stop any manufacturer except from changing their game plan. If anything they will make people pay NOT to have the bloatware installed.

Buy the system with a tiny drive, when it arrives pop in the storage system you want with the OS on it like half the posters out here...

 

[Darth Shiv]

That's assuming Lenovo recovers consumer confidence from this! It's the sort of gaff that could destroy your brand.

 

[shoron0]

Home PC's, I build myself, laptops, for the most part, kind of hard to do, but, what I have done for years, is to get a laptop, leave it disconnected from the web as much as possible, set it up, install whatever I need, then power off, pull the HDD, install a new blank one, install the OS, and set it up how I want. I put a post it note on the drive, with the purchase date, and warranty expiration date, put it on the box the blank HDD came in, and put it on the shelf. If nothing happens before the warranty is expired, I just wipe the factory drive and use it as a spare. In the last 10 years, I've only had to take the factory drive and pop it back in for warranty purposes once. Laptop drives aren't as expensive as they use to be, so it's an easy way to deal with bloat and trying to untangle all the crapware "value added software" installed on a machine.

I'd love to do just exactly what you've been doing, but my Lenovo laptop didn't come with any OS disks or manual, so what am I to do? Buy an other OS package and pay for MCE (it came insalled)?