It is very rare that you find a tool for your network that is as bold in explaining its function as this tool. So what is a PCDecrapifier?
Simply put this software examines your PC and removes all the pre-loaded “crapplications” that are added to your PC’s when you first purchase them.
Crapplications (I love this term almost as much as the product name), as pre-loaded pieces of software that are not necessary for your PC to run in fact in many cases they are some auxiliary programs that come along with the real software that we want.
Such as those applications that load icons into your task tray for quick access, or the ones that load update managers at startup even though they only produce updates for their product every three or four months.
Another one I love is the ones who add music management program to the download when all you wanted was the media player they provide. And let’s not forget the toolbar guys who add those browser toolbars to software you download or even purchase and hope that you just click next…next…next and install their crapplication onto your systems.
I won’t name names you know who you are, and so do we!
Now everyone’s version of what would be considered a crapplication is different. So what PCDecrapifier does is first ask you to create a restore point (just in case), next it examines the system. Shows you what is found and then allows you to choose what to remove.
The personal version is free and the commercial version is only $20 per technician. You can find the personal version here.
The site also provides instructions for downloading the commercial version. The commercial version adds the ability to automate itself and provides additional command line parameters for administrators.
PCDecrapifier is not only a really good tool to keep your PC’s running clean and free of any pre-loaded crapplications it also quite possibly the best named product I’ve seen in a long time.
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Ron Barrett is president of RARE-TECH, an IT Training and consulting company. He has been a technology professional for over a decade, working for several major financial firms and dotcoms. Barrett is a specialist in network infrastructure, security and IT management.
He is a co-author of The Administrator's Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Servers, How to Cheat at Administering Office Communications Server 2007, and the Real MCTS/MCITP Exam 620 Preparation Kit and has been a contributor to Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions and Exam Cram 70-244-Supporting & Maintaining NT Server 4.
He has also contributed to several industry magazines and was featured in the book Tricks of the Windows Vista Masters. He has worked for Microsoft writing research and analysis documents for Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC, and PerformancePoint Server 2007. He has also created screencasts on Windows Server 2008 Administration for Linux Admins.
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