Ive never bought a big box new pc.. so i never have had to weed out the crap that comes preinstalled with a computer i owned. but i have had to do it to probably 500+ other peoples computers..
someone built a tool to do it..
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
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In other news, my ankle is pretty stiff, but there is 2600 tonight..
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Supplemental Lotd, cgi proxy stuff..
http://tools.rosinstrument.com/cgi-proxy.htm