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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45810

This CNET News.com story reports that people why buy a new PC are getting more and more frustrated with an increasing amount of pre-installed software that a lot of the time decreases the performance of their new computer right out of the box. PCs are becoming increasingly cluttered with preinstalled software--

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sikoone · Contributor Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 2

I have to agree with this. I used to work at a major retailer and had to display the new cpus. The so-called security suites slowed the cpus down to a crawl. They took forever to boot, and they made installing software a pain. The only way i could install the store demo was to disable the startup of everything, especially the security software which was the main problem. I wonder how many cpus were returned because people thought there was something wrong with them because they ran so slow.

Genoism · Elite Member Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 335

lol i also agree, whenever i had to setup a new computer at work cleaning thte thing of crap took me longer then hooking it all up and setting up the network.