Installing a new Dell PC

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The following is the list of programs, automatically installed on the new business machine we bought at the office, that I uninstalled in the first half an hour of setting the machine up.

  • AOL Coach version 1.xxxx
  • AOL Connectivity services
  • AOL Spyware protection
  • AOL UK
  • AOL Screensaver Picture Viewer
  • ARTeuro
  • Dell Media Experience
  • Dell Picture Studio
  • LivReg (Symantec)
  • Liveupdate (Symantec)
  • Myway search assistant
  • Norton internet security (Crashes if you try to add / remove when live update is running, will not remove unless logged in as the supervisor for it, creates default password on first boot which unless changed there and then seems to be stuck as a random password)
  • Norton Security Center
  • Sonic DLA (disappointingly not the hedgehog)
  • Sonic Recordnow copy
  • Sonic Recordnow Data
  • Sonic Update manager
  • Tiscali Internet (disappointingly not the entire internet)
  • Wannadoo installer
  • Jasc Paint Shop Pro 5 (has a good uninstalling trick, gives you a "time remaining" box that counts down really quickly, then when it runs out replaces it with another quick one, then another, then another. In the end it's same speed as one slow box making it's Window's equivalent of Go-Faster stripes)
  • Jasc Picture Viewer Media Edition

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Mark wrote this at 12:01, Wed, 05/10/05, Link
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Catherine

Oh you Apple elitist!

Dells are great! I love mine. Getting a new one soon. Only $699!! Bargain.

Written by Catherine at 19:20, Thu, 06/10/05

Catherine

Oh you Apple elitist!

Dells are great! I love mine. Getting a new one soon. Only $699!! Bargain.

Written by Catherine at 19:22, Thu, 06/10/05

Catherine

So good, I neeeded to tell you twice!

Damn Dell. Haha.

Written by Catherine at 19:23, Thu, 06/10/05

Paul

My Dell is bad. Very much so.

I'm also a bit of a noob when it comes to pooters, so keep breaking mine very badly.

If I were you I'd get a Time computer, I hear they're great.

Written by Paul at 08:58, Mon, 10/10/05

Denis Poole

What is ARTEuro. I want I serious answer please not one of your snide remarks.

Written by Denis Poole at 15:39, Sat, 30/12/06

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