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No OEM Junk software, revival of recovery DVD/CD's NOT partitions

910 points posted to Desktops, Software by mgin2k3 05/20/07 **UNDER REVIEW**

First, I hate it when I buy a computer and right when I turn it on out of the box, it's got a lot of junk software installed (AOL trial, Nortion Anti-Virus trial, etc). Get rid of these trial and non-trial OEM softwares or at least give the customer the option of not having them installed. I end up wasting so much time trying to uninstall all this junk anyways and I'm sure I'm not alone. I like having a clean install when I get a new computer (or when I'm recovering). And by clean I mean Windows (or whatever other OS the user may enjoy) and NOTHING else. Secondary OEM software can be included on a separate disc for the user to select manual installation (or request preinstallation of for new purchase orders).

Secondly, recovery partitions are terrible. Aside from the fact that they waste harddisc space, if the harddrive were to become toast or to be upgraded, not only would the user lose the original installation, but they would also lose the recovery data. Has this single point of failure not come to anyone's attention? CD's and DVD's can be preciously taken care and you never have to worry about losing both the installation and recovery partition all at once.



mistern
05/20/07		 These are two ideas and the first is a duplicate. I vote for the second only.
badblood
05/20/07		 I vote for second idea too. I voted for the first a long time ago.
johnpro
05/21/07		 I totally agree with this. I have a laptop that has 25% of the disk for the recovery partition. Only computer people know how to fix this.
jackie_c
May 15		 Changed status to **UNDER REVIEW**.
wallyhorse
May 15		 I thought media was included, at least for the operating system. That I would be doing as some of us would rather be able to restore that way if the hard drive ever had to be replaced for instance.
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