Advertising on new computers.

[Seth]

A couple of weeks ago I had to do a system recovery on 6 month old HP. After the recovery, I was appalled at the amount of advertising that was on the desktop, as well as all the needless stuff in msconfig's startup. About half the desktop was taken up by advertising icons.

Since these advertisers are paying the computer manufacturer, do you think any of that profit is passed on to the end user by a price reduction?

[mommalina]

Since these advertisers are paying the computer manufacturer, do you think any of that profit is passed on to the end user by a price reduction?

Doubt it.

The computer manufacturers should be spanked for enticing newbies and some not-quite-so-newbies to subscribe to AOHELL, inferior antivirus software, and other crap that hasten the perceived need to replace a virus- and spyware-infected computer with a new one!

Lina

[Seth]

Doubt it.

The computer manufacturers should be spanked for enticing newbies and some not-quite-so-newbies to subscribe to AOHELL, inferior antivirus software, and other crap that hasten the perceived need to replace a virus- and spyware-infected computer with a new one!

Lina

I agree.

It's bad enough that advertisers on the internet can easily dupe the average user into installing poor software (or worse yet) malware infested software. Now with many new computers, you don't even have to install it because the manufacturer already did!

[Terry Hanushek]

Seth

I was appalled at the amount of advertising that was on the desktop, as well as all the needless stuff in msconfig's startup. About half the desktop was taken up by advertising icons.
You seem to be overlooking the joy that a new computer owner gets from dragging those little advertising suckers over to the Recycle Bin and gleefully clicking OK to confirm their removal.:D :cool: :D

Terry

[athomsfere]

Seth, be glad it wasn't a Vaio's root kit ;)

[Seth]

Seth, be glad it wasn't a Vaio's root kit ;)

Heh heh heh.

Good one!

[Seth]

Seth


You seem to be overlooking the joy that a new computer owner gets from dragging those little advertising suckers over to the Recycle Bin and gleefully clicking OK to confirm their removal.:D :cool: :D

Terry

Ohhh...I get it now!

Those icons are there in order to teach the user how to drag an item into the recycle bin!

Thanks Terry:)

[mylanta]

Ohhh...I get it now!

Those icons are there in order to teach the user how to drag an item into the recycle bin!

Thanks Terry:)

You wish maybe the experienced users do that. My clients leave everything on the desktop and add everything else to it too...by the time I get there, you can't even see the ugly sky and ground desktop they never change either.

[Seth]

You wish maybe the experienced users do that. My clients leave everything on the desktop and add everything else to it too...by the time I get there, you can't even see the ugly sky and ground desktop they never change either.

LOL!

I'm so sick of that background.

One of the first things I show my customers is how to change the background!

[Pi rules]

I hate it that they put ads and other junk on new computers. That's one reason I build them instead. Otherwise, I would probaby just wipe it and install XP w/o that junk (if possible, some don't even let you do that).

I'm so sick of that background.
Me too, but I usually keep it for tutorials and stuff. I've done some with a different background and theme and people ask questions. :dizzy:

I found a good alternate one (here (http://www.wallpaperspecial.com/wallpapers/bliss/bliss73.jpg)). I use it for one distro of Linux. :laugh:

[Seth]

Very fitting for the Linux crowd Pi!

Have you ever checked out Wallmaster? It's really cool...I'll start a new thread about it.