PC Decrapifier

Crapware is probably a better word for what I used to call bloatware. The software that you can live without. The same software that comes preloaded on your machine when purchased. Eating your CPU, RAM, battery. Eating your nerves when your machine hangs or stalls or takes too long to boot. The problem is now widely noticed and as necessity is the mother of an invention, anew class of software utilities emerges. Decrapifiers.

Computer viruses spawned a wave of anti-virus software products, even entire companies, some of them listed on stock exchanges. Big industry. Then came firewalls. Software fighting against other software trying to get on to your computer and wreck havoc on the desktop. Now we have decrapifiers. Utilities promising to clean your windows machine to the state comparable with Macs. One of them is the PC Decrapifier. It is a good start. No perfect by all means, but good and helpful for starters. And looking at the dynamics of the amount of crapware coming with new PCs, this new anti-software software category will grow fast. Oh how I wish the world was without such developments :)

BTW: I know a number of people perfectly happy with their EEE 901 laptops. Weak CPU, no storage, great Windows XP with Google Chrome on top of it and flying Google Documents. The notebook category has died. Long live netbooks!