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0 pointscriddell9y ago0 comments

The OS puts Candy Crush in your menu and it's installed on demand. So to users it will seem like it's always been installed.

All the pre-installed software is my big pet peeve for Windows 10. I don't want weather, or contacts, or xbox, or 3d builder, or email, or alarms, or skype, or office, or calendar, or groove, or money, or news, etc... I've deleted them and they just come back because of some provisioning setting.

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mark_l_watson9y ago

Buy a signature edition laptop directly from the microsoft store, then you will not et any crap-ware.

criddellOP9y ago

Things like Candy Crush, Skype, and Office aren't the full installs but instead are stubs that install the applications on first run. Even if you buy a retail copy of Windows 10, that junk is still in there.

A signature edition makes sure that the only crapware is stuff that Microsoft installed.

lmm9y ago

This isn't true. You get Candy Crush. That's the whole problem.

mark_l_watson9y ago

OK, then Microsoft changed what gets installed. A year ago when I bought a signature laptop, no junk was pre-installed, IIRC

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mark_l_watson9y ago

Buy a signature edition laptop directly from the microsoft store, then you will not et any crap-ware.

criddellOP9y ago

A signature edition makes sure that the only crapware is stuff that Microsoft installed.

lmm9y ago

This isn't true. You get Candy Crush. That's the whole problem.

mark_l_watson9y ago

OK, then Microsoft changed what gets installed. A year ago when I bought a signature laptop, no junk was pre-installed, IIRC

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