[evilfantasy]

I don't know if this has been mentioned here before but if you have never used this tool you may find it useful.

Welcome | The PC Decrapifier
Download | The PC Decrapifier

The PC Decrapifier easily removes many Crapplications that come on brand new (and old) PC's. See: What it Removes

Features

The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trialware and annoyances found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs. Here is the current list of software and items that the PC Decrapifier can detect and remove. You get to see the list of items it detects and then choose what will be removed automatically.

How It Works:

Simply download the file. Open up the zip file and run the EXE. There is no installer necessary. If you have anti-virus software installed, it may complain about this program because it is written with a scripting language. These warnings can be safely ignored.

You may then pick and choose what you want to remove. It will not begin removing anything without prompting you first!


Theres also a paid version.

Additional Commercial Version Features

The commercial version has the additional ability to automate itself. If you would like to include the PC Decrapifier in another script, you can pass additional parameters on the command line. The parameters are as follows:
Usage: PC-Decrapifier.exe <--showlist> <--autoremoveall> <--autoremovespecific [file]>
--showlist: Outputs possible programs to remove to pc-decrapifier-list.txt
--autoremoveall: Automatically removes all default items found (optional items not removed)
--autoremovespecific [file]: Automatically removes all items specified in [file].
The file should contain the programs in the same format as the file generated by the --showlist parameter

[sho-dan]

I second your thoughts evilfantasy, use this program many times on old/new, client/friend computers and its user friendly.

[samjohnson]

Cool program. Thanks for posting EF!

[evilfantasy]

I agree. It's one of the rare "one click fix" utilities.