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stidyup

Aug 3 2006, 06:56 AM

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It’s a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine to a crawl. If anyone’s bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I’m talking about. Just recently, I was helping a friend set up his brand new Inspiron 1300 and it took FOREVER for it to boot up. It’s a very dissatifiying experience to pull a brand new computer out of the box and be spammed with a bunch of trial software. After removing all of the crap, (wich took a significant amount of time) it booted much faster and performed like it should. I kept thinking it would be nice to have an automated way to remove all this stuff. Thus was born the Dell De-Crapifier script.

Chachazz

Apr 29 2007, 05:53 PM

The PC Decrapifier
The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trialware and annoyances found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs. Below is the current list of software and items that the PC Decrapifier can detect and remove. You get to see the list of items it detects and then choose what will be removed automatically. Currently, it is targeted for use on most Dell machines; however it will theoretically run on anything that has the software listed below.

The PC Decrapifier will run on any Windows XP variant, including XP Home, XP Pro and XP MCE. It will run on any Manufacturer, assuming it has any of the software installed that is listed below. The PC does not need to be new.

Free for personal use.
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/home

QuickBooks Trial
NetZero Installers
Earthlink Setup Files
Corel Photo Album 6
Tiscali Internet
Wanadoo Europe Installer
Get High Speed Internet!
Internet Service Offers Launcher
Dell Search Assistant
Norton Ghost 10.0
Symantec Live Update
MS Plus Photo Story 2LE
MS Plus Digital Media Installer
McAffee
Norton Internet Security
Google Desktop
Google Toolbar
AOL US
AOL UK
MusicMatch Jukebox
MusicMatch Music Services
Wild Tangent Games
Norton AntiVirus 2005
Norton Security Center
Norton AntiSpam
PC-cillin Internet Security 12
Corel Snapfire Plus SE
Yahoo! Music Jukebox
Vongo
Office 2003 Trial Assistant
Norton Protection Center
HP Rhapsody
ESPN Motion
Run Registry Entries
Desktop Icons
Startup Menu Items
Reset IE Home and Search Pages
Corel WordPerfect
Roxio RecordNow
Sonic DLA
Sonic Update Manager
Sonic RecordNow Audio
Sonic RecordNow Copy
Roxio MyDVD LE
Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
Quicken 2006

Terryala

Sep 17 2009, 03:47 PM

PC Decrapifier 2.0.3

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/download

Chachazz

Sep 20 2009, 09:19 PM

PC Decrapifier v2.1.0
Sat, 09/19/2009

Notes: Bumped the version to 2.1.0

Version 2.0.0 Released
Sat, 09/13/2008
Notes:
"This version has been cooking up for quite some time now. Version 2.0.0 brings you a complete rewrite of the application. I got to the point where I exceeded the limits of the scripting language I was using and the program was becoming a maintenance nightmare. This isn't to say anything bad about the scripting language, in fact, it's one of the coolest tools I've used. However, it just wasn't designed for what I needed to do.

So, what does this mean for you? Well, short term, you've got a faster, more stable application, but release doesn't bring you much in the way of removal updates. There are a couple more icons and startup entries though. However, with this re-write I'm able to put together updates much more quickly. So now that the major work is done, you will start to see this application updated more frequently"

Windows XP and Vista Compatible

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