(Antivirus software from some of the biggest companies in the computer business is notorious for this.) Removing this junk yourself sometimes is easy, but usually it's hard. Crapware comes in three varieties - free software, trialware (which you must pay for after a period of free use) and ransomware, which starts out free but then duns you for payment as if you had intentionally chosen deferred payment. In nearly every case, crapware is inferior - sometimes vastly inferior - to software you can choose yourself. Second- and third-rate software companies pay PC companies a fee to let them put their crapware on PCs. Crapware is a blight on the good names of many PC manufacturers. You can get rid of this garbage, for free. New PCs often come with software you didn't ask for, don't want and seemingly can't get rid of. This week I'm recommending a free way to remove unwanted extra software from new Windows PCs. That's the idea behind my series on the best free software for Windows and Macs.
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