Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s not the driver but some bundled configuration & update bloatware. But their UI framework seems pretty bad, what do they use?
Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s not the driver but some bundled configuration & update bloatware. But their UI framework seems pretty bad, what do they use?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I remember installing a fresh PC with win98. During installation, I disabled some windows bloatware (Imagine! You actually could do this!), and ended up with an unresponsive, non-windows app blocking the system. I killed that app and removed it from the system. Keep in mind that at this point, no network connection was set up, nor did I install any driver or program yet, this was straight from the windows install medium.
After reboot, the app was back, and again blocking the system.
Wiping the harddisk and starting installation over did not help either.
Turned out this was some bloatware installed by the BIOS whenever it detected at boot that there was a) a Windows installation that was b) “missing” their “register your PC with us” app. This needed some Windows bloatware to work, and thus failed on this machine.
This was the only time I angrily screamed at a hotline worker.