{"id":8874,"date":"2006-04-13T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2006-04-13T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T14:18:13","slug":"paying-to-have-your-new-pc-decrapified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8874","title":{"rendered":"Paying to Have Your New PC Decrapified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd over at Geek News Central <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeknewscentral.com\/archives\/005965.html\" target=\"new\">claims<\/a> that he bought a new Dell computer recently and was asked by the SalesDroid if he wanted to pay an additional $20 to have them remove all of the junk software the manufacturer loads on. I love the twisted logic of this: Buy this product and then pay me more to take some of the product back. Luckily, you don&#8217;t have to pay a Blue Shirt at Best Buy to remove all of those unwanted wares. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkspace.com\/2006\/04\/38\" target=\"new\">Dell De-Crapifier<\/a> is a utility created by a frustrated user to automate this inevitable purging. Unfortunately, it only works with Dells and you have to have the automation and scripting tool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoitscript.com\/autoit3\/\" target=\"new\">AutoIT<\/a> installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd over at Geek News Central claims that he bought a new Dell computer recently and was asked by the SalesDroid if he wanted to pay an additional $20 to have them remove all of the junk software the manufacturer loads on. I love the twisted logic of this: Buy this product and then pay &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8874\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paying to Have Your New PC Decrapified?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}