Is Your PC Feeling a Little Bloated?

PC Pitstop separates the 'bloatware' hype from reality. Which PC manufacturer is the King of Bloat? PC Pitstop examines 8 brand new computers and documents the winners & losers.

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• bloatware
• wild
• tagent
• microsoft
• dell
• gateway
• HP
• Acer
• Toshiba
• Sony
• software
• word
• power
• point
• mcafee
• symantec
• Google
• Yahoo

[alexandgruntz]

This is why the best first command to perform on a new PC is "format c:". :P

[Fantasma25]

i thought hp was the king... congratulations sony!!

[CBNZandar]

That is why i build my own pcs. No fuss no Bloat.

[DaveSimonH]

Its a shame that most PCs sold do not include a OS install disc, I prefer where possible to have a completely clean slate. Then I can download my own software, generally freeware.

[PlaystationMasterPS3]

@vivalanation734

this is 2007, and it probably was a model name

[kleinmein86]

Fuck the mac

[raymondleeleggs]

@Flybyhacker I know my Micafee is expired and it keeps on trying to get me to play for thier WEAK ASS program, I got Fix-It Utilities 7 Professional and PCTOOLS spyware doctor and they WORK and find infections Mcafee can't I also use the windows firewall and defender/security center.

[MarksterTutorials]

if i was a computer manufacture i would put avast pre-installed on it.

[Banjogoose]

No joke. I hate all that crap that gets piled into computers. It's almost sickening looking into a computer of someone that doesn't know what they are doing and haven't re-installed in years. I reformat for the same reason. About every 6 months like clockwork whether I think I need it or not.

[ChicagoBugZapper]

I reinstall operating systems all the time just to get rid of all the extra crap. Most of the time it's not even a virus slowing down peoples computers. When ever you download a new program it asks you if you want to do an "express" install. The "express install,most the time, adds on TOOL BARS and other unnecessary stuff. I saw this guys laptop that had so many tool bars that he had a two inch view of his web page.

[scragar]

... It's quicker to install a whole new operating system(Installing debian on my second box clocks in at just under 50 minutes) than it is to get online at first using some of those computers, ouch.