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[Humpty]

This fella seems really annoyed with pre-installed apps on a new pc.
CNET link

[lotse]

Very true. Practically the forst thing I do with a new PC is uninstall the stuff I don't want or will never use. If MS didn't tie in some of their programs so tightly with the OS, I would uninstall them as well.

[rridgely]

AOL should have their own catagory. I wouldn't be too agrivated if they started shipping pcs with their Active Virus shield though instead of norton/mcafee.(I would still uninstall it but at least its not as bad as mcafee/norton)

I just set up a brand new out of the box HP machine that came with
AOL ISP junk
AOL Screensaver junk
Viewpoint media player junk
AOL Messenger junk
Weatherbug junk(not technically AOL I guess but they ship it with all of their junk software)

Did I make it clear enough that aol is junk?

[Parvez]

In that video, it shows top five softwares and they mention Gaim.

The name "Gaim" has changed to Pidgin

[Andavari]

rridgely, on May 12 2007, 11:39 PM, said:

Did I make it clear enough that aol is junk?

Crystal clear El Capitan!

I knew their ISP wasn't that great during my first week of using it back in 1999, however I did use it for a year up until I started getting junk in the mail (snail mail) billed to my AOL account that I didn't even order.

Other junk that's on new PC's is all the media playing software, when low and behold Microsoft already include WMP, although I'm not found of WMP either and would probably consider it junk too.

[JDPower]

rridgely, on May 13 2007, 05:39 AM, said:

Did I make it clear enough that aol is junk?

Though to be fair we've been on AOL for a few years and the actual connection has been great, no disconnections, good speeds, no downtime etc. Admittedly all the software is bollocks

[Andavari]

JDPower, on May 13 2007, 04:57 PM, said:

Admittedly all the software is bollocks

Any third-party software just to connect to the Internet is rather dumb in my opinion especially since Windows comes with all the necessary tools for connecting.