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11th January 2019, 00:49 | #11 |
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I had almost the same bloatware on both my HP, that's sitting in the box with a dead fan, behind me., lol ) as I have in my Gateway. Both windows 7 home edition. Before I set this Gateway back to factory settings for the 4th time in 4 years ( I do it annually, lol. ) I had removed most of it. Evernote was he biggest pain in the ass to remove. I actually had to do a search to find out how to remove it properly. Because I sat here 1 night for over 2 hours trying to uninstall it. And it was still not finished. I'd say though there is less stuff on this Gateway, then on the HP!
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11th January 2019, 00:56 | #12 |
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can always go click on the file to find out, lol. I can do that with some of my video files or images. But I've moved stuff so many times now, From computer, to external drive, then back again. Then from computer to computer? Many of the original files dates no longer exist!
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11th January 2019, 00:59 | #13 |
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Namcot? Did you ever find the movie? Either on your drive or on the net to download? lol. Should I check requests in the movie section?
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11th January 2019, 22:32 | #15 |
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Depends on what you accept to install.
Many FREE softwares, and even some websites, come with crap that will get installed automatically, if you aren't careful enough during the install process or you are not fast enough to block any unwanted popups. And sometimes many of these apps even overwrite/install Windows data in the System folder that will automatically fetch/download data to and from your PC, whenever you are connected to the Internet. So, to avoid all these situations, it's always best to have an AV software always opened. My Sony VAIO that I use as a portable HTPC to watch/stream movies to my TV, it hasn't been formatted in 3 years. It has only the necessary apps I use the most. No bloatware or a single malware at all. Still runs fine, and the HDD space is always under control. As far as Windows updates goes, yes, they do take some space. But nothing like a few GBs. Unless you install a Windows 7 version with no SP1 integrated, there aren't any updates that take, like, 20-30 GBs of HDD space, really. Temporary files and registry entries, left by everyday and uninstalled apps, are even a thing of Mac OS and iOS/Android, too. So it's not a Windows only thing. After all, some programs/games need to write something on the disk to be able to restore a certain project you're working on (if you haven't saved any files) or to be able to communicate with the OS in order to run correctly. If you clean the cache of your phone, your browsers or that of your computer, once every week, you shouldn't really have that much to clean.
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That's what I always did with all the laptops I had over the years.
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12th January 2019, 09:26 | #17 | |
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Same here, both my Acer and Toshiba laptops had "helpful programs" installed, which I then had to research to find out what was safe to remove, and what was useful. Every desktop PC I've owned has been either built by my friend, or bought from a custom builder (Simply Computers, Scan, CyberPowerPC, Overclockers), none of them have had bloatware pre-installed. The bloatware is often pre-installed as it subsidizes the cost of the machine, or increases the manufacturers profit margins, it's nothing to do with Microsoft. |
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Enough. I removed all off-topic posts. If you have nothing to add to help Namcot's issue, then dont do it...beyond if you have Mac, Windows, Linux or Atari 2600. That doesn't matter here. All off-topics will be removed without notice.
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I was able to run disk clean up and get it to scan the files in the winsxs folder and when the scan was completed, it told me 5.4 GB of those files could be deleted.
I clicked okay and it deleted those files. Reason why the files in the winsxs folder didn't come up in the disk clean up scan the first couple of times is because I had Windows Update disabled under services.msc. That's just poor design! If you don't have Windows Update on, it doesn't detect the folder which is clearly there. Microsucks just want to make everything complicated - just like lawyers - always complicating things that are not supposed to be complicated. |
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