My experience with Dell's is that they are not that bad at all. I've found the couple of HP's that I have helped friends with had far more bloatware then the Dell's that I have used had.
Either way, with a little time in add/remove programs...it's pretty easy to remove stuff. With a little more time and an install disk, just do it yourself.
Thanks for all the feedback, thus far. Strange, my HP was relatively clean - perhaps it's also dependent on model numbers and that there is no consistency here? I was quite surprised to hear on the forum that Asus was another culprit. But I agree, it's not a huge headache; there were add-ons with my HP which I simply removed.
The exception on bloatware installs is for business computers, proving the point that the manufacturers are making their profit margins off of lower-cost boxes on the sponsor's bloatware.
Decrapifier and Revo Uninstaller (an essential tool) in Advanced Mode are valuable help with bloatware removal however not a substitute for a clean reinstall - anually, if you want continuous, instantaneous performance Win7 is designed to provide.
I also customize my system. I have a little black book with the item as well as an idea how I did it.
I have my sleep mode setup a specific way and it chnages about 5 different things so I just write it down and help me a great deal.
Writing things down become more of a necessity
Especially if you are as old as I.
Saving a Win7 Backup Image as soon as things are setup and running exactly as you want is also a great way to save settings. You never have to reinstall again, either.
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From what I've seen, Toshiba is bad for bloatware at least on their laptops. They do seem to make good machines though.
I make a full backup after my 1st install and then one a week after that... Only keeping the 1st ever and the 4th week to my latest... Works great for me as the 1st is done to DVDs and all others to a USB drive... GL :)
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