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Dell Spyware

Read a blog post by Michael Righi about how Dell wanted to charge him $49 to remove their pre-installed MyWay Search Assistant. Michael, the solution is simple… C:\format c: /yes

Once the drive has been wiped clean, reinstalled with clean version of OS (notice I said OS… not Windows), not containing said crapware. Configure machine properly with good solid tools and programs. Enjoy.

Posted: 5/3/2006 in:

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  1. So basically you mean the solution is to reinstall the OS. Why bother formatting the drive?

    Comment by fraggle — 5/4/2006 @ 3:51 am

  2. Mostly because the Format C: part is funny, and actually repartitioning the drive as well. Depending on what you got from Dell you could lose 50MB-5GB to their Utility Partition and/or their Restore Parition.

    Comment by Scott Cover — 5/4/2006 @ 7:35 am

  3. Alas, OS reinstallation is getting harder and harder with pre-packaged PCs. My laptop (god bless it) didn’t come with any media (although it doesn’t have a drive to read media with anyway); there’s a special disk partition with tools on it but you’d still be stuffed if your HD died or you upgraded it.

    Comment by Jon Dowland — 5/6/2006 @ 10:55 am

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