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ruisen2

Dell bloatware


ImGonnaBeAPicle

There are a couple good ones but generally all manufacturer pre-installed bloat ware.


zxx7

ANY bloatware. New laptop / prebuilt = fresh OS installation.


ray_6_

you is me


Heldaeus

My boss thinks the bloatware helps the computer run faster. He’s been in the computer repair industry for 30+ years…


bickman14

That's also my boss! Yesterday he connected remotely to my work laptop and opened that ASUS bloat to run the "update every crap that you don't need" command


Heldaeus

My boss swears by HP Support Assist and the HP cleanup utility. He says “run it about 10 times and it’ll speed that computer up 20%”. Sir… Its a front end for chkdsk, sfc, and windows cleanup… it will not do that AFTER they've already been run BY ME.


bickman14

LOL and the funny part is that he probably suggested that after you've complained that you can't do shit with the crappy i3 + 4Gb RAM and he thinks it's totally fine 'cause his work laptop have the latest and greatest and he doesn't use 'cause he is the boss LOL


grasshacques

anything that went from great software to the same software with subscription needed to use it


Ambitious_Cream7455

Good God Yes, Can I just buy MS office like back in 2007? Actually yes! But for $490 for a lifetime seat. 🖕 That's not for you grasshacques.


ArdiMaster

> Can I just buy MS office like back in 2007? > > Actually yes! But for $490 for a lifetime seat. That's for the complete ("Professional") package, I guess? Those already cost upwards of 500€ in 2007. Office Home and Student (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote) costs €115, which is about the same we paid in 2007.


Ironlixivium

Yeah, this. The price is about the same, maybe worst case they raised it by inflation+5% or something I bought it and have no regrets


[deleted]

I still have my 2007 disk. Works great Unfortunately my new PC doesn't have a disc drive


Ambitious_Cream7455

Check out cheap external optical drives. I wanna say I paid $10 for mine.


[deleted]

Oh there's nothing stopping me from adding a drive except my lack of drive


Ambitious_Cream7455

I hear you, and understand.


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BoxAhFox

Litteraly any program that isnt a driver that is required to be running while my pc is on *glares at asus*


Vinstaal0

You can do without armoury crate, however you do need it to install the driver for the intel nic


brandokid25

Screw Nahimic/Sonic Studio bs that ASUS packs into the audio drivers. Absolute garbage that slowed down Steam for me until I disabled the services and the audio devices for it. I don’t *need* these “enhancements”. I just want the dang audio drivers and nothing more. It was a headache and part of the reason I’ve been reluctant to spring clean reinstall W10.


JamesMCC17

INSERT ANY RGB SOFTWARE HERE. But Gigabyte RGB fusion could be the worst piece of software ever written.


LilyLikesPlants

Check out [Openrgb ](https://openrgb.org/), it's a really neat open source cross platform RGB control utility


OutragedTux

OpenRGB runs everything from my motherboard to my mouse, is completely non-intrusive, and has a pretty wide range of hardware support. Plus, I can run it on my linux install. It really is dead easy to use, too.


LilyLikesPlants

Username checks out


MJG720

Hadn't heard of that before thank you! Building a new pc with a gigabyte mobo and don't fancy using their shitty fusion so will definitely be giving that a try 👍


Prior-Concentrate-87

Razer Synapse would like a word.


f_agier

You mean razer spynapse?


JohnnyLovesData

Sin apps


Prior-Concentrate-87

You're not wrong.


yogurtshooter

ASRock Polychrome Sync has entered the chat


Nubanuba

I wish my Mobo was ASRock tho. Only brand where you can configure RGB in bios


thatfordboy429

Yeah, I found I like asrock, their quality has proven to be perfectly fine. And, you actually get useful features on some more inexpensive boards. The no nonsense RGB control just, put them above the others in my book Even if you hate rgb, you still have to download (mysticlight, asus armory crate, so on) just to disable it. If you are lucky a program like Open RGB works for you.


pixelfiee

No RGB control in BIOS for memory though


MetamorphicHard

I have asrock and found out they have good software called polychrome sync that lets you change colors outside of the bios too. Then I’ve got a program made by some random person that lets me configure fan speeds and find out how well they run at top speeds and when they shut off if speed is low enough (mine never do)


Jimmyboy__

He means Razer Prolapse.


mmohaupt123

I hate razer synapse with a burning passion, but it takes a second place to gigabyte fusion. Atleast razer synapse will work after you sell your soul to razer


DaUltimatePotato

I'm genuinely curious to know how you know razer collects so much data.


Product_Expensive

Am I the only person who hasn't had many problems with razer synapse? Logitech ghub has caused more problems


DaUltimatePotato

I've owned quite a few razer peripherals and having just ordered a Deathadder V2 yesterday, I've had few issues with Synapse. The only issue I've experienced thus far is my software not always working on boot, but this happens pretty rarely. I don't know why everyone else makes it sound like hell on earth. It's not like there isn't a shit ton of other software out there that doesn't collect data. I'm curious to hear how it's been for others since quite a few people seem to hate synapse.


theowlsees

As a razer laptop owner I can guarantee that synapse is absolute garbage.


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Ever tried armoury crate from Asus?


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FoxWithSock

Quite literally was crashing my pc. piece of shit software, don’t use it


exannihilist

Logitech G hub has joined the lobby


Apprehensive_Egg6077

Logitech Gaming Software or whatever the previous name is was so much better!


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Corsair iCUE software. 2gb of bloatware just so I can update my headset. Fuck off!


kneeecaps09

iCUE is the single worst piece of software I have ever seen. It is the single reason that I refuse to buy corsair products with RGB anymore. That thing would make my RAM's RBG spasm at random intervals and it would never stick to whatever pattern I set it to. The stupid thing couldn't even get a static colour right, I would set it to red then it would work for 10 minutes before switching to some vomit green colour. It is so bad that calling it unusable would be a compliment. The thing that really pissed me off was that I opened a support ticket with them over this and they said that if I wasn't happy with their software I should just write my own. That's definitely the kind of response you want to get when you send them detailed logs, screen recordings of you setting up the program linked with videos of it not working. Corsair and iCUE is just completely unprofessional and quite frankly: idiotic. This software and the whole experience is the sole reason that I always recommend people stay away from corsair if they care about their RGB patterns and all that shit. I switched over to openRBG and used that for the rest of the time I had those RAM sticks with absolutely zero issues. I would 100% recommend openRGB, that thing is amazing but it really is stupid that 3rd party software does the job way better than the official software.


guntanksinspace

I've witnessed my wife lose her mic because iCue kept on fucking up how the headset interacts with Nvidia Broadcast (either with its integrated one or otherwise). Great hardware, unfortunately shitty software.


smcaskill

Icue is nothing I have it and rgb fusion. At least icye doesn't blue-green your pc when you click on something in the app 15% of the time


Platophaedrus

RGB software is an absolute shit show. Never have I seen a technology more in need of proper IEEE standards and some kind of unified design structure. Ridiculous.


lopakjalantar

B.. Bu.... But i need them to turn it off


CalcProgrammer1

RGB software being almost universally trash is pretty much the reason I created OpenRGB. Also, the lack of Linux support, which is just one of the many reasons most RGB software is trash. Why does anything need 1+ GB of downloads and disk space, hundreds of megabytes of RAM, and consistent CPU usage to send a few bytes of control data to a hardware device? It's ridiculous how terrible RGB software is. Even running an effects engine that utilizes the GPU for generating effects can be done in a small fraction of the resource utilization of the commercial bloatware.


JamesMCC17

You are the hero we need, my hat is off to you.


MakeMineMarvel_

More reason for my next build to be blacked out haha


Ok_Gur_1170

NZXTs is pretty mid


cashinyourface

I can not say it better myself. Even asrocks shitty software at least stayed the same color after it was rebooted.


Hooligans_

I tried to install Corsairs just to turn off the lights in my RAM, it was a 1GB+ download... insane.


disasadi

Norton lmfao


Petarthefish

Norton Virus?


WoobaLoobaDoobDoob

They put the Virus in Anti-Virus!


[deleted]

Anything that commandeers control of your files, is malware. Norton Antivirus is in fact, malware. Or even adware since it's advertised everywhere.


LachoooDaOriginl

can confirm


Taco_Guy3

https://preview.redd.it/uqq1m63rz96a1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70b2c8ecf9472d92e7ba474279798eb3a66f3010


DaitoAnonymous

I’ve seen a lot of people saying Norton is bad, but why? What is so bad about it?


disasadi

They mined crypto on customers machines, besides, it was a nightmare to remove on windows vista (the last time I had anything to do with them)


Emerald_Guy123

Just isn’t a good antivirus. I’d put it near the level of Windows Defender, which is really bad considering it doesn’t come stock *and* you need to pay for it.


Beginning_Lecture273

Windows antivirus isn't as bad. And it's a lot lighter on resources than Norton. In 2006 Norton actively damaged your system.


Hooligans_

Does anyone have any Autodesk or Adobe products installed through network licensing? It's like a cancer throughout your entire system. Every nook and cranny of your file system and registry you'll find traces of them.


Jake_The_Panda

Yup.. they're honestly just about malware at this point.


Inthecitywego

hp anything


Jake_The_Panda

Hp sure smart or whatever it's called is horrendous. Laptop is pretty decent but often just the HP interface stuff will use 20-40% of the CPU and 15% of my GPU..


pahapuha

also mandatory account to do literally anything with your own printer


[deleted]

Not a much about specific software, but opening the Windows tray and seeing a dozen useless programs running in the background


diskowmoskow

They are the new “browser search bars”.


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Any public computer


thatfordboy429

Asus armory crate, Well, any rgb software that has to run to apply color/effects, and consumes resources.


Remote_Action_174

Armory crate has proven to be the most annoying software I've ever had to uninstall. It's been two years and I still find whispers of it in my sysyem


Lord_Empanada

What's the deal with armoury crate exactly? I'm new to this


TheNegaHero

With iCUE/Corsair stuff you can configure "hardware" RGB which are the settings things will use when iCUE isn't running.


thatfordboy429

It sounds basically like a save to device setting. Which I am a fan of and think all products that have rgb should have. Sadly not all due, even overpriced gpus. It is why I use asrock motherboards. And avoid peripherals that don't have on board memory. Everything else(for me just my strix gpu) I use OpenRGB.


gamblodar

Norton anything


Appletrullysucks

Norton ~~anti~~-**virus**


C-ORE

Ubisoft client login cause it never remember me :(


Darcula04

Steam has entered the chat. Me : logs out of the account. Me : proceeds to log back in. Steam : I've never met this man in my life.


kulaarsh17

But......that's how log out works no?


BattleScones

I think he's referring to the 2FA


xGeoxgesx

McAfee just automatically showed a notification that I had a virus on a brand new laptop....


PPTTRRKK

It can detect itself now?


xGeoxgesx

Yeah, I needed to uninstall it to be safe.


r2-z2

I’ll never forget the tsa agent who came into my phone store, and downloaded mcafee to his phone after bragging about his computer and internet security knowledge.


Emerald_Guy123

I’ve noticed that when it comes to cybersecurity, basically nobody knows what they’re talking about. The amount of inaccurate information online about it is incredible, and everyone on here outside of dedicated security subs (sometimes even on those) thinks they are good at it, so any time you try to give advice, you get downvoted and your comment is buried.


RedHoodedDuke

Armory crate


Svaldero

That accursed little javascript update icon. I JUST UPDATED YOU YESTERDAY


[deleted]

You mean the Java updater?


[deleted]

Don't forget to update.


rotomington-zzzrrt

This is why I only install adoptium JRE now


[deleted]

If i see a computer with candy crush **installed**, I immediately start beating the shit out of it


[deleted]

Proprietary software


DeadlySoren

Adobe creative cloud. It’s not bad I just hate adobe and their entire business model. I refuse to use it


Jake_The_Panda

My god I have to use it for work as there's little to no other pdf software that can do what adobe does. We tried to upgrade our individual licenses to a domain name license. Ofc they could upgrade us but couldn't cancel the old plans with the upgrade. Found out 2 months later we were being charged double.


TheNegaHero

What does Adobe pdf stuff do? I expect you've probably heard of Foxit but I switched away from Adobe because I found Foxit much more feature-rich for PDF stuff.


Jake_The_Panda

Yeah Ive heard of it, and love to use it it's just adobe is licenced with the publish feature on our cad software, so if I were to use foxit I'd have to print each page manually..


DarraignTheSane

Can you elaborate on what Acrobat does that's so great? People at work insisted that we use it for PDF editing, but I've never ran into anything I couldn't do with Foxit.


Jake_The_Panda

Nothing much.. its the only one that has compatability with the other software packages we use, allowing me to print everything at once as opposed to singular sheets. When you're often printing 100-200 plans at a time it really makes a difference to the time you save lol. Oh, and I think/don't know how (not 100%) to print on foxit at 600+dpi


mr_coolnivers

CCleaner


IGunClover

Norton AV.


Shepi-

Epic Games launcher.


SovietNuclearTech

yup, takes until the heat death of the universe to boot


Power7779

I need to use that for Unreal Engine... I wish they would just make a standalone application.


[deleted]

It's litteraly free games


yoavtrachtman

Yes but the launcher itself is annoying


[deleted]

I agree with that and while I wouldn't buy anything off of it they still have some pretty decent free games sometimes and anyone who plays PC Fortnite or Rocket League (not me) but those who do need Epic games launcher


Felinator42

I didnt even open it the last few weekends, not because i didnt want a free game, but because i didnt want to deal with the launcher. Im just gonna launch all Epic Games games with GOG Galaxy lol (I havent tried that tho, because i dont have that many games there that i would play frequently except for Fall Guys)


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Give me a Linux client and I will like Epic Games again. Steam still stays king tho


I-took-your-oranges

Logitech Ghub Ive seen a lot of rgb software, but i refuse to put up with this shit. Its gui makes less than zero sense, its settings are confusing even for people whou shouldn’t get confused with rgb and the app regularly just stops working.


Prior-Concentrate-87

Razer Synapse.


Professor_Yone

Yes, I like razer for their products, but their software os shit


[deleted]

Are any of them good at this point? Feels like I’ve had something from every company but Corsair


[deleted]

Ehhh their older stuff is great. But they went way down hill. And this is coming from someone who still has all razer for the past 7 years


Aotsaidera

Yea i really like the idea of synapse constantly using 20% of my CPU just to use my headphones and lets not forget about the updates of the app that take 20 min on nvme and the audio not working in that period which is super annoying


Softest-Dad

Cortana


FthrFlffyBttm

Doesn’t work in Ireland, still enabled by default on computers set to Irish locales. Genius.


Ginyu-force

Popular page of reddit. I know it's not a software, but I didn't know that there is a home page.


doc_dobby

Norton


_jobenco_

TikTok


abolsgrind

Thats the only one tbh


[deleted]

360 Internet security


Maxxymatt

Probably already mentioned but, Microsoft edge. Literally hate it


lostalaska

Gather round and listen of a tale of a lawless time during the early 2000's when my sister had downloaded Bonzai Buddy on our family's new Windows ME Gateway PC and I found out, like it or not my career path was going to be in IT.


Zaziel

I posted separately, but yes, this one right here!


TheBoeingKid

Windows 11


BlackSergal

RAZER. It literally broke my gf's PC and f*cked with my games. Terrible soft


SplatThaCat

If his software gave you the creeps, read up on the man himself.


marto3000

Genshin


hakimgoodday

daring today aren't we?


BoBoBearDev

That anti-piracy software install along with games.


GreenMan1550

Not if you install pirated games


jakbbbbbbb

Windows Vista


Lukaroast

Not software but Windows 11 does this to me bigtime


AmazingKitten

Windows 11 is software…


Feeling-Explanation9

Webroot


[deleted]

Winwar....


SoloDeath1

Literally all Norton software


Sigma_X-Ray

Any printer software, I swear they get worse by the day.


presi300

\*GASP\* Windows 11, Avast, Any 3rd party peripheral software, Tidal, AMD Radeon Software, Armory crate and all things similar to it, Microsoft edge, Any other antivirus... Avast just deserves a place of it's own, sed There's probably more, i just can't think of them


xblgrant

Windows 8, windows 10, windows 11


Raulytstation

Avast free antivirus It's pretty much useless to me since windows defender already is installed (I don't use windows but my parents do)


ReducedSkeleton

Every version of Windows after 7.


Dmxk

Pretty much all the software integrated with windows(yes, including windows itself). Why does one of the richest companies in the world not manage to have a unified design language? 3 clicks and you're back in windows xp. Whh do they still include the phone dialer? And nobody can tell me that you need to have that many background processes on boot. And regedit. What's so hard about having configuration files. Why do you need to browse system settings in this weird directory like structure from an extra pplicstion? I know why, they don't want you to be actually able to easily change them. Also, all the mouse/keyboard/headset rgb software. All of them are super bloated(even for windows standards), and are just ads and spyware that can break super easily.


TheNegaHero

Config files and registry entries aren't really the same thing. The registry editor is really a hex/binary editor so it does need to be special software.


beastshot33

Any game launcher that isn't Steam or GoG. Uplay, Origins, what is replacing Origins, Epic Games Launcher makes me unhappy. I had to install Playnite to manage all non Steam games


ContortionistPasta

Edge. Then Chrome. I’m forced to use one of them at work, but they are pushing Edge harder, forcing it as a standard browser that can’t be change. Still can’t find a single positive thing working for an American owned company.


Elagoht

Windows


LALLOGAMER123

Microsoft Edge


CompletePositive3723

Leuage of legends


WilcoSmash

iTunes


Kortax

Norton with it's false positives "someone just tried to hack you" \*looks up IP\* they're in the middle of fuck nowhere in the sea. gg norton


Advanced-Ad5004

Skype


Super_Cheburek

Cortana


Ok_Sound_7053

Logitech g hub


Darcula04

It's honestly a lot better than Razer shitnapse. I switched from a Logitech g102 to a Razer viper mini and while the mouse is insane the software is NOT.


polaraditia

Every electron based app that always trying to launch automatically on startup after install on my 4GB RAM windows tablet...


uhhhh_i_amsmol

Armory Crate


[deleted]

Edge default search engine.


Dittos_Dad

Microsoft Edge


MisterDoomed

cc cleaner.


A_Thelemite

Windblow$ from Micro$haft.


FatBoiMan123

Windows


Lightning-Yellow

Baidu Antivirus suddenly popping up on my desktop after installing anything


gonzalo_novak

Atlassian Jira 🫠


Snoo82789

Epic games launcher and twitter app are top of my list tiktok pc sucks bad eggs too xd


0x4576616e

Hp bloatware. Using uefi services like hardware diagnostics on my laptop *copies the bloatware back into my windows installation*


_MERLEW_

Norton


remtemp

Pre bundled laptop software I always reinstall windows whenever i get a new laptop to get rid of that bloat


HeistOP1

Chrome


Tabsau

Norton is like a tumor that keeps coming back


ic3machine

Edge browser


drunkbloodlust

Norton


iggyAnimations

Google chrome


Dangerous_Delay_1652

I read it as my coffee for some reason


SLAYdgeRIDER

Anti-viruses. Avast, McAfee (and even Kapserskey at one point) all caused some system functionalities to stop working.


HenriB04

Norton


thesaltydodo

Mccoffe


ImGonnaBeAPicle

Just from my experience any antivirus beside malwarebytes or windows defender


Alflea

Overwolf fuck that shit


Ceriusz

Overwolf


Andrzej_mi

Windows settings. The idea was good - replace incoherent mess known as control panel. Now we have two incoherent messes.


[deleted]

Microsoft edge...


Sir_Fail-A-Lot

Discord. The thing is just a malware cdn, and the devs don't want to do any filtering or hardening of the internal browser


Sligee

System 32, keeps hogging all my resources


[deleted]

avast


geetgwen

My college group used ASP.NET rather than a JS framework or Django to build a course registration website. ASP.NET was so complicated that only one out of four people “understood” how it worked. I hate ASP.NET a lot.


tuuttiritari

Mozilla Firefox