Chad Dickerson talks about how difficult it is to set up a new PC. 

I’ve been helping my friends across the street from me set up their new Dell PC and though it booted up out-of-the-box, it has been ridiculously tedious and frustrating to clean all the trialware and marketing crud off the thing.

Spot the problem word there. Yep, it's Dell.  OEM manufacturers do load a ton of junk onto PCs that they ship and make the process of removing the junk almost impossible by not shipping a standard copy of Windows.

OK, it's not fair to blame just Dell - most of the big OEMs do it and it drives me nuts.

My advice stands - build your own PC!  Problem solved!

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