Hp Software screwing up windows

[Bill Sharpe]

From what you have said, HP is still a poor choice to buy.

I had a friend 10 years ago, who had some several pieces of hardware
go bad in less than a year.

My brother bought an HP system with WinMe, and it's hard drive and
monitor had an early failure.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Take care.

When I bought my Compaq laptop a year ago from Staples, the store
offered to remove all the HP bloatware at an extra charge of $35. They
claimed the machine would run much faster. I declined the offer and
removed most of the extra stuff myself. Oh, yes, Staples threw in a free
HP Officejet 5610 all-in-one. This turned out to be an excellent choice
as a printer. And I've had no problems with the laptop either.

If you don't like the recovery partition approach or creating your own
recovery disks I suggest using a backup program like Acronis, where you
can make an image copy of your boot drive and reinstall Windows for
that. Do this after you've removed bloatware and installed your active
programs.

Bill

 

[Alias]

You have software designed for Hewlett Packard computer installed on a Dell
computer??? and you wonder why you're having problems???

I have HP software for my HP All-in-One and I don't have Dell or HP but
a self built computer. WTF are you going on about?

Alias

 

[John]

Oops... I completely forgot that could very well be software for an HP
printer/scanner or other HP devices. I was thinking customized software for
HP computers. My mistake.

 

[John]

$35 isn't so bad. Best Buy wants an extra $100 to "fine tune" a new system
that comes with bloatware. I heard that from a friend who knew almost
nothing about computers and was about to buy one. He asked me if it's worth
paying them an extra $100. Hell no.

It's almost like buying a new car loaded with so much trash. We can't sit in
it and the car dealer asks us to pay extra bucks to clean out the trash.

 

[BillW50]

In SC Tom typed on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:04:52 -0400:

From the experiences I've had with TigerDirect, I'm surprised they
aren't in court 24/7. Way back when (probably close to 20 years ago),
I bought a bare "upgrade" from them that was just the mid-tower case,
power supply, and a motherboard with an Evergreen CPU. You had to
supply your own HDD, FDD, RAM, etc. Seemed like a decent upgrade, so
I thought I'd try it. As luck would have it, the onboard clock was
bad (replacing the battery didn't help), so the time had to be reset
every time I booted up. I called them about it, thinking maybe they
would just send me a new MB or the plug-in clock module (told you it
was old), but they said I had to send the whole thing back. So I
stripped it down, boxed it up, and waited for FedEx to pick it up. To
give Tiger credit, they did arrange for the pick-up, and sent a new
box out NDA, charging me for it, but saying they would give me a
credit when they received the old unit. Two weeks go by and no charge
credit. I called them up and all I got from them was "We haven't
received it yet." I gave them the FedEx tracking number and the fact
that FedEx had delivered it to them, and still got the same response.
After four weeks, I got hold of my bank and told them what had
happened, and they made things right. I'm sure they got their money
back from Tiger, but it seemed a rip-off that they had the proof that
the defective unit was returned and delivered to them but still
denied it. I used them again about five years later for an internal
UPS. That didn't work, either, although when I contacted them before
the purchase, they assured me there would be no problems using or
returning it. Cost me like 7% to return that POS. On a personal
level, I've never done business with them again. They give used car
salesmen a good name. When I was working, we had an account with
them, but seemed to get a more-than-normal share of mistakes on
things ordered from them. I had nothing to do with that decision to
use them. Our main office set it up over my objections.

SC Tom

Good horror story Tom. I have bought lots of stuff at TigerDirect. And
you have to be very careful. Some of their stuff is very good. While
lots of their stuff is pure junk that nobody else would buy. Before
2000, they were very good and they have gone downhill ever since.