On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:28 PM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's be clear. The complaint wasn't about updating software currently on > your system, it was about trying to install programs that you do not have > and are completely unrelated to what you do have already installed. > > I've never owned a pc built by HP or Dell or anyone else, I've always built > my pc's myself. Are you saying the HP you owned would install NEW software > you did not already have installed or was updating software on your system > already? Also, there is a very easy solution to these so called > undocumented programs...hit the start button. > > A new HP comes with a lot of crap ware hence the existence of pcdecrappifier- <http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/>. They don't seem to do it retroactively but some of this stuff crawls out from under the rocks it was hiding under after a few years. I couldn't get it to stop opening the MS Office 90 day test drive when I clicked on a text file long after I selected open office. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o)
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