Startup Programs - Change

MOST definitely. I thought that was VERY cool.

This tutorial has nearly 3 million views, making it likely the most viewed 7F tutorial and one of the most helpful tech tutorials on the web ever.

Via his tutorials like this one, help he provides in 7F and the steady hand with which he guides us, Sean Brink is the most influential tech support person on the web. We all stand in awe.

This tutorial's amazing demand directly inspired my own work here to Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 and Clean Up Factory Bloatware.

Brink said:

Majestic One said:

THAT is funny... HAHAHAH Jeffrey from ASUS told dude in a 1 egg comment (see: Newegg.com - ASUS A53U-ES21 Notebook AMD Dual-Core Processor E-450(1.65GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory DDR3 320GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW AMD Radeon HD 6320 ) how to go to THIS thread to solve his "ASUS Bloatware Startup problems..." THAT is E.P.I.C.

EDIT: Thumbs me up...

EDIT pt 2: oh WAIT this ain't Utube LOL

Most manufacturers like ASUS do not have detailed tutorials or instructions for Windows related issues though. That was nice of Jeffy to find us helpful to reference. :)

What's REALLY hilarious is the fact that he's apparently ASUS customer loyalty, and HE called it "BLOATWARE" LMFAO...

squish8294 said:

HE called it "BLOATWARE" LMFAO...

Yeah Jeff is cool like that.

I first heard the term from a MS Tech Support guy who stayed up half the night with me to show how to Clean Reinstall a Gateway 510 with the XP retail upgrade disk.

He said bloatware compromises the OS worse than anything except insufficient hardware, and that 3rd party toolbars (at the time) destablize XP by about 10% each. I think there were about 5 installed.

Hi Brink,
replaced a Dell D630 system board (nVidia GPU) few months ago with a system board (Intel GPU) & had some left over nVidia startup items. Came across this link yesterday while removing some Services from another PC & now you have helped me twice.
I could not find the nVidia items in the registry & really wasn't sure how to go about removing them. Thought I would be stuck with a "Selective Startup". CCleaner removed them so easily.

& thanks again