Bought a new laptop, I know what the first thing I'm uninstalling is...

dfGobBluth · 2012-09-17T15:09:57+00:00

First thing i do when i buy a new laptop is format and install an oem windows.

Pappenheimer · 2012-09-17T16:28:32+00:00

It's geeky to uninstall the Bing toolbar? Seriously?

InvaderOfTech · 2012-09-17T15:13:42+00:00

Nuke and Pave!

ducttape36 · 2012-09-17T15:27:52+00:00

if you buy from the microsoft store online it doesn't come with a bunch of crap on it.

richard_nixon · 2012-09-17T14:59:35+00:00

Who gives a shit? Uninstall whatever the fuck you want to uninstall.

What are we supposed to discuss here?

sincerely,

Richard Nixon

Qu0the · 2012-09-17T15:51:02+00:00

Generally the first thing I uninstall on a new laptop is windows.

suddenly_ponies · 2012-09-17T08:36:33-07:00

PcDecrapifier

Use it... Love it

Saiing · 2012-09-17T08:40:54-07:00

Fucking whoopey-doo for you. Why should anyone here care?

fani · 2012-09-17T17:53:50+00:00

I like Bing and I use it a lot but hell even I uninstalled this thing.

Companies need to realize that you don't need the Google toolbar, bing toolbar and this and other shit to annoy us.

How difficult is it to launch a browser and type in bing.com and bing ?

willystylee · 2012-09-17T18:39:11+00:00

Eeeughh... god, i had to do this just the other day on my mom's new laptop. It's insulting, i'll go ahead and say it. Fuck you Bing, fuck you Norton, fuck you CyberlinkDVD, fuck all of you and your bloatware. Give up. Stop wasting your money creating this shit, people get better software that's free that does everything you could ever claim to do and better. Give the fuck up.

Kosko · 2012-09-17T07:36:04-07:00

I actually love bing's new desktop everyday. Work friendly high res images sync'd daily.

bobjohnsonmilw · 2012-09-17T16:45:22+00:00

I get a lot of joy from immediately formatting and installing Linux.

lilnizzle · 2012-09-17T09:27:56-07:00

Just remember to purchase Norton after the 30 day trial finishes.

TwoHands · 2012-09-17T16:48:47+00:00

TIL you can use windows without using your computer.

kellyjosephprice · 2012-09-17T11:30:40-07:00

Alex, What is windows?

AliasUndercover · 2012-09-17T19:09:52+00:00

Are they seriously trying to say you have to use Bing Bar to use your computer? I wonder how many people fall for that shit.

dafreeboota · 2012-09-17T16:13:22+00:00

WHat the fuck? required to use your computer? fuck!

P1r4nha · 2012-09-17T15:26:13+00:00

You mean Windows, right? Don't need to install it. Just put in a liveCD and format your disk. It's easy.

However keep the product key. These keys are valuable.

Mikethrillmas · 2012-09-17T16:47:00+00:00

We should all get drunk and experiment with bing. What a story that would make.

MrMunchkin · 2012-09-17T16:08:01+00:00

Or... You could not give a shit and use a web browser that's not Internet Explorer.

Flawd · 2012-09-17T09:14:16-07:00

It really pisses me off how they require you to agree to that before it'll let you into the operating system.

I have that exact picture on my phone, taken for the exact reasons.

mrbrick · 2012-09-17T09:16:33-07:00

I spent a good 2 hours yesterday setting up my father in laws PC. At first I realized was like- hrmm.. he is super computer illiterate. Maybe he wont need anti virus? He barely knows how to open Chrome. But then my wife pointed out that he is newly single, doesnt want to date, and going to living alone for the first time in ages soon... so porn. MSE it is.

Its amazing how much bloat ware was on this laptop.

lomegor · 2012-09-17T17:02:05+00:00

I like how installing the Bing Bar is required to use your computer, while the above product (I'm assuming the T&S of Windows itself) it's only required to use Windows. I would hope they maintain such promise and brick your computer if you don't accept it.

popshopadop · 2012-09-17T17:23:59+00:00

it only installs bing bar to internet explorer as far as i know of.

eyebum · 2012-09-17T18:20:05+00:00

Advice I saw elsewhere on Reddit-don't uninstall windows. Just buy a new hard disk, and swap it with the existing one. Then install whatever you want. Keep the original for any warranty issues.

friedsushi87 · 2012-09-17T11:20:24-07:00

pcdecrapifier.com

Ivess · 2012-09-17T19:06:23+00:00

So brave

GracieBalloon · 2012-09-17T19:14:39+00:00

When we got new computers at work the Bing bar was the first thing to go on mine.

Icharus · 2012-09-17T19:17:44+00:00

lol bing is bad [OC]

NickDouglas · 2012-09-17T19:24:10+00:00

Saving for the next time someone asks why Mac users are so smug.

hooch · 2012-09-17T19:27:40+00:00

This is how hardware manufacturers keep prices down. They allow companies like M$FT, Symantec, and others to have their software preloaded, in return for cash.

Although I agree, I always format new PC's myself.

ck291403 · 2012-09-17T13:42:31-07:00

format c: /q , reinstall Windows, go

powercow · 2012-09-17T13:48:24-07:00

I was surprised both MS and google went into the toolbar business. It's been a bane of microsoft and doesnt really fit IMO with googles ideology, just as those things have always been associated with nefariousism and ruining your browser experience.

I've seen too many browsers with only a couple inches of actual browsing space. I dont know how the normal user is supposed to keep crapware off their system. They try to trick you every which way into installing them. Sometimes just checkboxes checked below the window that you have to scroll to see. Sometimes disguised as the normal licensing agreement. And while it IS up to the user to read what he clicks, these things are all designed to be sneaky.

Even if the ms one and the google one are less intrusive and easier to uninstall, and less sneaky, they still are part of computing that have given people great headaches and are associated with tricking people.

(and avg too.. yeah i get that sometimes people find them handy but they have always left a bad taste in my mouth)

replicated · 2012-09-17T20:55:44+00:00

I like it for the wallpaper. Also you can get free Amazon cards to buy real things on amazon with Bing but ok.

Baron_von_Retard · 2012-09-17T21:02:10+00:00

How does this belong in geek? Just use pcdecrapifier and be done with it. Stop making asinine and retarded posts.

obi-nine · 2012-09-17T22:06:06+00:00

First thing I do with a new laptop is re-format the hard drive and install Ubuntu.

The1337Mudkip · 2012-09-17T15:40:11-07:00

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-MY/windows-vista/Take-a-screen-capture-print-screen Yup.

Elshar · 2012-09-17T22:42:13+00:00

Not the free Norton/McAfee junk that comes with it? Wow.

AdmiralEO · 2012-09-17T15:44:54-07:00

Yep. Fuck that shit. Stupid Microsoft.

fraincs · 2012-09-17T22:59:03+00:00

Bing Bar is nice only for the reason you can set it to change your wallpaper to fit bing.com pictures it's a nice touch. no sarcasm here

jaylakes · 2012-09-17T23:10:52+00:00

And when they're done, toolbars take up ask the viewable area of the browser. Yup, Ubuntu for me. M$ can #sand

cold_drink · 2012-09-17T23:22:56+00:00

The entire OS?

HerderOfNerfs · 2012-09-17T23:37:14+00:00

I un-install a different Microsoft product. It's called Windows.

NoAirBanding · 2012-09-17T23:43:38+00:00

I don't use IE, and when I do it's for bing rewards (xbox points), so yea, I have the bing toolbar installed

Sonicjosh · 2012-09-17T17:05:15-07:00

I actually use the Bing bar, makes it very easy to use the Bign rewards system. That being said, I still use Google exclusively for real searches.

I've gotten more than $50 in Amazon gift cards though Bing rewards by entering random junk into it.

SkyWulf · 2012-09-18T00:11:51+00:00

The fuck? You have to install that Bing shit just to use the computer?

brkdncr · 2012-09-18T00:28:53+00:00

I think you can just not check that box and Bing doesn't get installed.

hiflyer780 · 2012-09-18T00:38:34+00:00

http://pcdecrapifier.com/download

Awesome tool. I use it pretty much daily at work.

dirtydan · 2012-09-18T00:50:36+00:00

Next uninstall Windows 7 alltogether. Win 7 became unusable for me after about a month of use on a new laptop. I replaced it with a mature free OS and run Win7 in a virtual machine like those Mac guys do with Bootcamp. Now when the thing starts dragging I burn the virtual machine and fire up a copy.

harley613 · 2012-09-18T01:16:50+00:00

i googled this 'Bing' and it doesn't look all that impressive

Keyes817 · 2012-09-18T02:02:16+00:00

Didn't Microsoft get in a whole heap of trouble for doing this in the late 90s? I do not understand how corporations can get away with forcing their inferior products on their customers

cuppsy · 2012-09-18T02:07:22+00:00

... Windows? Good move. I always start by tossing Windows and install Arch. :)

scootey · 2012-09-18T02:17:07+00:00

Write the manufacturer and demand that they either give you a copy of the OS without the Bing crap, or refund you for Windows altogether. (Slightly like asking for a refund for bundled Windows, which some people have done to varying degrees of success.)

Seriously, I'm not an anti-Windows zealot...but saying that accepting an EULA for crapware is "required to use your computer" is going way too far.

WHOWANTSBEEF · 2012-09-18T02:29:05+00:00

You have to agree to use Bing to use your laptop? Seriously?

Daveyo520 · 2012-09-18T02:33:26+00:00

I actually use the Bing bar to get free MS Points.

sbailey85 · 2012-09-18T03:12:08+00:00

I thought you were going to un install windows. That's what I do

roosterlollipops · 2012-09-18T03:38:25+00:00

Did they stop adding 'Print Screen' keys to laptops, or did you uninstall Paintbrush as well?

TroyDowling · 2012-09-18T05:27:54+00:00

Protip (Uninstalling crap): DeCrapifier

Protip (Installing Applications): Ninite

Canidium · 2012-09-18T06:35:22+00:00

Tip, don't uninstall bloatware. Format the shit out of the computer instead. Otherwise, shit will still be present.

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