What's the best tool to get rid of Bloatware?

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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Hi Guys,

I got a new Laptop and was wondering, what's the best tool to get rid of Bloatware?

have a tek day,
Lighto :)

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Get a flash drive, load windows 7/whaver 64 bit onto it, boot from it.
Format HDD, install windows on /c/ drive.

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Maybe try pcdecrapifier

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@creaturecomforted you gave a a chuckle,never heard of the website.

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Lol, yeah it's pretty funny. I read about it in a pc magazine. It works pretty well for a lot of things.

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Logan used it in his video "New Laptop: What to do when you get a new Notebook/Laptop/PC"

Although, I found that this program didn't find that much on my laptop and I had to uninstall some crap manually.
Usually I just install CCleaner and go through the listed programs and uninstall it from there.

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You could run stage 3 on the Tron Script

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format

gets rid of everything.

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Yeah that works. I'd still reformat if I were you. I keep all my programs and drivers on a drive ready to install after format. It takes 20 minutes to have a fresh new fully functional copy of win 7/10 from USB on my PC.
I recommend ninite.com for fast installs.

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Agreed. Just reformat. It's the quickest, most effective way of getting rid of unwanted shit.

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Wipe the drive and reinstall windows

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Backup, write zeroes to drive. Take magnet to drive, buy new drive. Stuff like Ccleaner, Malwarebytes, panda, Spybot Search & Destroy and actually windows defender does do an okay job. A lot of it is just Kaspersky's code anyway though. They have a patent on a lot of malware removal. Most of the same stuff, with different interfaces. I had to dig a little bit deep on that.AV industry is useless thanks to MS crafting a better built in AV with Win 8/8.1 and 10.

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Well, he's trying to get rid of pre-packaged bloatware, not malware.

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OOOH That didn't register/dyslexia and laziness. Add remove programs and call it a day? It all comes down to knowing what is and isn't. Once you've gone through 100s of new setups you get use to it. Pay Geek Squad to do a pc setup for 30 bucks aka bloatware removal/updates/and install 6 programs of your choice. If it was bought at BBUY that is. Former GS Agent corporate schill.

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Reinstalling Windows after a format is the quickest solution.