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Oh man, tell me about it. My SO just bought a new Lenovo laptop. We spent the entire first evening with it running Windows updates. And the entire second evenin
by cooperadymas 11y ago
Oh man, tell me about it. My SO just bought a new Lenovo laptop. We spent the entire first evening with it running Windows updates. And the entire second evening removing all the garbage that comes installed with it. Finally it's day 3 and ready to be used.
- rasz_pl 11y agodont worry, Lenovo uses bios hooks to reinstall said garbage
- rdudek 11y ago[citation needed] Or are you just talking about doing a factory restore on system which brings back everything to it's original state?
- vetinari 11y agoNo, but theoretically, the way they did it, they could install whatever they wanted. Source: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenovo-used-windows-anti-theft-feature-to-install-persistent-crapware/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenovo...