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My mom just bought a laptop, it came with McAffee. All the Windows laptops at work still run McAffee. Presumably as means to decrease productivity as much as po
by abacadaba 6y ago
My mom just bought a laptop, it came with McAffee. All the Windows laptops at work still run McAffee. Presumably as means to decrease productivity as much as possible, or I guess it must check some box somewhere, got me.
- judge2020 6y agoBest Buy and similar retailers bundle AV with the computer, and IIRC it's often impossible to not have it pre-installed (since Windows installs it at the OEM's request). The only way around this is using recovery media (bootable usb/cd) and NOT the "reset to factory" setting in Windows 10's recovery settings.
- calvano915 6y agoFor a while now, Windows 10 has been able to reset to factory and remove all bundled apps via the Fresh Start reset option (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026602/windows-10-give-your-pc-a-fresh-start https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026602/windows-10-...). I've never tested to verify how well it works, and I don't think it prevents apps that Microsoft wants to include like Candy Crush.
- judge2020 6y agoYou're right, although figuring out the correct path to perform this is confusing since there's a "reset" option (that does remove your personal data incl. files) that simply uses the pre-configured windows image, which Dell/etc modify to include the bundled software: https://superuser.com/q/1236716/543570 https://superuser.com/q/1236716/543570