{"id":2380,"date":"2007-06-22T23:20:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T17:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/dell-removes-bloatware-no-pre-installed-software-options\/"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:13:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T14:43:34","slug":"dell-removes-bloatware-no-pre-installed-software-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/dell-removes-bloatware-no-pre-installed-software-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Removes Bloatware: No Pre-installed Software Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever buy a brand new <strong>Dell computer online<\/strong>, you would usually get lots of <strong>preinstalled software<\/strong>. But as per a new Dell policy change, these bloatware are on the way out to make your computer free from most unwanted software, but not all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be an outcome of customer feedback from Dell Ideastorm, that lets you share your ideas to <strong>improve Dell<\/strong>. This inspiring idea came from a popular article called <a href=\"http:\/\/ideastorm.com\/article\/show\/62715\" rel=\"noopener\">Preinstalled Software Must Be Optional<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;software manufacturers sign licensing agreements with Dell to have their software (usually a &#8216;lite&#8217; or trial-ware version) pre-installed on Dell computers and pay Dell a fee for the privilege. This is fine for the company, but for the customers upon whom these programs are inflicted, the initial &#8216;Dell&#8217; experience is one of an endless sea of pop-up messages begging for this or that to be installed, activated, started, registered, etc&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The official Direct2Dell blog confirms that they have expanded opt-out offering on XPS products as well as Dimension desktops and Inspiron notebooks. Now when you configure a system on Dell.com, you have the option of choosing &#8220;<strong>No software pre-installed<\/strong>&#8221; for things like productivity software, ISP software and photo and music software. Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>However not all preinstalled software is gone. Dell computers will still come preloaded with trial versions of <strong>anti-virus software, Acrobat Reader and Google tools<\/strong>. They also inform about a new software uninstall utility in the U.S (pre-installed on Dimension and Inspiron systems) that allows customers to further control and choose what software is on their system.<\/p>\n<p>Most new computers come loaded with unwanted bloatware. It is good to learn that Dell is listening to customer feedback via the Dell Ideastorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever buy a brand new Dell computer online, you would usually get lots of preinstalled software. But as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}