Comments on: Dell bloatware http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12571 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:47:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12571/comment-page-1#comment-986379 Reader's Write Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:34:14 +0000 #comment-986379 Regarding the PaintShopPro trial version... I got a machine that unbeknownst to me had had its PSP trial time run out. Not knowing that it was a trial version, I put my .jpeg pictures from my camera in a new folder on the desktop. I installed the picture handling software that came with my camera, and didn't tell it to be the default picture viewer. Now when I look at the file list in the folder, all of them say "Paint Shop Pro Image" as the filetype, when they are actually jpeg files. How do I get rid of the popup that tells me to order the program? - it comes up when I click on the file to view it. I don't want to order the program.... many thanks Regarding the PaintShopPro trial version…
I got a machine that unbeknownst to me had had its PSP trial time run out.
Not knowing that it was a trial version, I put my .jpeg pictures from my camera in a new folder on the desktop.
I installed the picture handling software that came with my camera, and didn’t tell it to be the default picture viewer.
Now when I look at the file list in the folder, all of them say “Paint Shop Pro Image” as the filetype, when they are actually jpeg files.
How do I get rid of the popup that tells me to order the program? – it comes up when I click on the file to view it.
I don’t want to order the program….

many thanks

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12571/comment-page-1#comment-139665 Reader's Write Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:02:24 +0000 #comment-139665 I continue to see brand spanking new computers with the worst choices in software preinstalled, AND a heap of "trial versions" of software. These include: * Norton/Symantec or McAfee anti-virus/spyware/whatever products. Possibly the most bloated "shitware" in the industry, these products use huge amounts of memory and CPU time, while simultaneously making themselves extremely annoying through warnings and pop-ups that never end. Superior solutions such as avast! antivirus are ignored, yet avast! is updated more regularly and uses so little memory and CPU time that even though it's modern software, its minimum requirements are "486 with 64MB of RAM" for Windows 2000 and up. * Toolbars, BHOs, search helpers, and CD filter drivers all over the place. I mean holy crap, if this stuff was so damned important, WHY is it not part of Windows? * Office comes free! Oh wait, it's a "60-day trial version." That's bait-and-switch in my opinion. I tell my clients to get OpenOffice.org and turn off the JRE to speed it up; that takes care of that problem, and Microsoft gets the shaft for even coming up with a trial version of such vital software. * Other programs the user is NEVER going to use. I have yet to see anyone using their "Paint Shop Pro trial" (I love PSP myself, but that's not the point), much less even sniff at "NetWaiting." To hell with all of that. I'm almost to the point that I'll advise the user to reinstall from scratch themselves and ignore the "APPLICATIONS CD" in the process... I continue to see brand spanking new computers with the worst choices in software preinstalled, AND a heap of “trial versions” of software. These include:

* Norton/Symantec or McAfee anti-virus/spyware/whatever products. Possibly the most bloated “shitware” in the industry, these products use huge amounts of memory and CPU time, while simultaneously making themselves extremely annoying through warnings and pop-ups that never end. Superior solutions such as avast! antivirus are ignored, yet avast! is updated more regularly and uses so little memory and CPU time that even though it’s modern software, its minimum requirements are “486 with 64MB of RAM” for Windows 2000 and up.

* Toolbars, BHOs, search helpers, and CD filter drivers all over the place. I mean holy crap, if this stuff was so damned important, WHY is it not part of Windows?

* Office comes free! Oh wait, it’s a “60-day trial version.” That’s bait-and-switch in my opinion. I tell my clients to get OpenOffice.org and turn off the JRE to speed it up; that takes care of that problem, and Microsoft gets the shaft for even coming up with a trial version of such vital software.

* Other programs the user is NEVER going to use. I have yet to see anyone using their “Paint Shop Pro trial” (I love PSP myself, but that’s not the point), much less even sniff at “NetWaiting.”

To hell with all of that. I’m almost to the point that I’ll advise the user to reinstall from scratch themselves and ignore the “APPLICATIONS CD” in the process…

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12571/comment-page-1#comment-139630 Reader's Write Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:18:52 +0000 #comment-139630 http://cexx.org/craputer.htm Enough said http://cexx.org/craputer.htm

Enough said

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