Removing Trial And Promotional Software The Easy Way
Brown Baron | Feb 15, 2008 | Comments 8
Everton note: I’d like to welcome Brown Baron to the Connected Internet team! Le Baron has been a loyal reader for a long time, and his site (which uses my old theme!) had its first birthday today. Congratulations on the achievement and welcome to the team!
Bloatware is everywhere. New computers have them pre-installed. A lot of applications come with other trial software that just take up space on your hard drive. You’re not going to use these so why not get rid of them? Let me guess, you don’t want to waste time looking for each and every piece of trial software right?
If you don’t want to uninstall all that bloatware one by one there’s a much easier way. PC Decrapifier is a free app for Windows XP and Vista that is designed to remove the more common trial and promotional software. Think AOL, Quicken, trial versions of Corel, and you’ve got the idea.
What’s great about this tool, is that you don’t even have to install it. You can run it from a USB drive if you want. The application will provide you with a list. All you have to do is select what you want uninstalled. It’s that easy.
![[PC Decrapifier Selection Menu]](http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pcdec2.png)
If you want to know what applications it can remove, the site has a list of trialware that it currently targets.
PC Decrapifier also lets you set a restore point just to be safe. A free app that’s only 519 KB? Sounds good to me.
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Congratulations Brown on your blog’s first anniversary, and nice first post here at Connected.
Best,
Gili
Welcome aboard BB!
Great to have you here and congratulations with your first anniversary.
This sounds really useful Baron, especially given all the stuff that gets put on new PCs – you’d think they were sponsored!
Congrats on a great first post and also your blog’s anniversary!
Congratulations Brown! Kind of nice seeing you at more than a few places in one day. :D
It’s “THE” Brown Baron? Wow, he just might have a future with this blogging thing. LOL
Nice find, Baron. It bugs me the deals that are made on the assembly line, as it were, with regard to pre-installing bloatware. Everyone’s out to get their name in front of everyone with no thought given to the ultimate result which is to be seen as an opportunist and sneaking in the back door.
thre Cheers to you Baron!
Thanks for the kind words guys! Thanks for the great intro EB!
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