Dell Lets Users Decline Crapware

Dell seems like it's starting to listen to it's customers.
Monday Dell announced that it will give buyers of certain PC models the option to avoid what the company calls "preinstalled software." Buyers of Dimension desktops, Inspiron notebooks and XPS PCs can now click a field in Dell's online order form that will block the installation of productivity software, ISP (Internet service provider) software, and photo and music software.

Pre-installed software, or "crapware" has been a growing problem for people who buy new PCs from major manufacturers like Dell and HP. Programs like PC Decrapifier have been created to help deal with the problem. Some pre-installed software like Vongo has become notoriously hard to remove, to the point of behaving like a virus or rootkit.

Now if they would just remove that annoying browser address error redirector...

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