| TheWindowsClub News TheWindowsClub Tech News covers the latest Microsoft Windows 10 news, along with other products & services like Office, etc. Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:16:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Lenovo promises crapware-free Windows PCs https://news.thewindowsclub.com/lenovo-promises-crapware-free-windows-pcs-72233/ https://news.thewindowsclub.com/lenovo-promises-crapware-free-windows-pcs-72233/#disqus_thread Sun, 01 Mar 2015 04:59:53 +0000 http://news.thewindowsclub.com/?p=72233 Lenovo PCAfter the SuperFish mess, Lenovo has decided to start afresh. The company announced that it will ship cleaner, safer, adware-free and bloatware-free Windows PCs, by significantly reducing the number of pre-installed software on its systems. Lenovo has been down in dumps since the last two weeks as shipping computer systems with a pre-loaded adware Superfish actually […]

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]]> https://news.thewindowsclub.com/lenovo-promises-crapware-free-windows-pcs-72233/feed/ 1 Crapware makes PCs take more than twice as long to boot up. https://news.thewindowsclub.com/crapware-makes-pcs-take-more-than-twice-as-long-to-boot-up-4430/ https://news.thewindowsclub.com/crapware-makes-pcs-take-more-than-twice-as-long-to-boot-up-4430/#disqus_thread Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:37:54 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=4430 This study has put nine machines from the major manufacturers through a battery of tests designed to highlight where they’re being run ragged by unwanted trial software or crapware. Acer, Sony and HP are the worst offenders, as far as installing crapware on laptops/PC’s is concerned! The Acer, for instance, offered an unnecessary Windows Media […]

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]]> https://news.thewindowsclub.com/crapware-makes-pcs-take-more-than-twice-as-long-to-boot-up-4430/feed/ 1 Microsoft Stores to sell crapware free PCs https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-stores-to-sell-crapware-free-pcs-4372/ https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-stores-to-sell-crapware-free-pcs-4372/#disqus_thread Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:21:27 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=4372 The computers on display in the Microsoft Store come without any run-of-the-mill “crapware“; the derisive term used for generic trial software and other unwanted programs that commonly clog new PCs when they’re shipped by computer makers. Under a new initiative called “Microsoft Signature PCs,” the company has removed those programs from the computers it’s selling […]

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]]> https://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-stores-to-sell-crapware-free-pcs-4372/feed/ 1 Its time to uninstall Digsby. https://news.thewindowsclub.com/its-time-to-uninstall-digsby-2706/ https://news.thewindowsclub.com/its-time-to-uninstall-digsby-2706/#disqus_thread Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:00:17 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=2706 The popular Digsby instant messenger client not only bundles half a dozen “optional” crapware applications, it’s also using your computer to crawl the web, do stock market research, and more. It’s time to uninstall. Now, during a Digsby install, you are prompted for not one, not two, but six different pieces of crapware, and then […]

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