Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish: The PC De-Crapifier July 28, 2006
Posted by Jeff Giddens in : Blogs, Security, Software, Technology , trackbackThis post should appeal to a few tech directors. They’ve seen tons of useless shortcuts cluttering what should be a pristine screen. After purchasing new PCs for students, administrators, and teachers, they’re discovering alarming amounts of bothersome, preloaded software residing on the machines they’ll be responsible for distributing to the masses. Thanks to the innovative thinker at Yorkspace, tech directors have the option of unleashing the PC De-crapifier on an otherwise useful PC. Maybe we should just be thankful nothing is exploding or otherwise going down in flames.
Just curious: is pre-installed software (i.e., stuff like Quickbooks Trial, Corel Photo Album, McAfee Internet Security Suite, Internet Service Offers Launcher, Sonic RecordNow, et cetera) a big problem for any classroom teachers out there?
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Hopefully that stuff is removed by the time the computer makes its way to the teacher or student. Most systems maintain some kind of “golden image” for their computers that has that junk uninstalled. This tool could certainly save some time for new PCs, however.