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ursus1974

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September 28th, 2005 14:00

Pre-installed QuickBooks

I just received my new Dimension 9100 and I'm trying to remove a lot of the pre-installed software. I removed "QuickBooks Simple Start Special Edition" from add/remove programs in the control panel, but now at start-up, I get a pop-up screen telling me to insert the QuickBooks Simple Start CD into the drive. Well, not only do I not want this software, Dell didn't even send me the CD. Anyone have any advice?
 
I am truly unimpressed with the amount of garbage software that came pre-installed on this system. What's more, my Service Tag isn't showing up on the Dell network, so I can't even email them to complain.

rickmktg

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September 28th, 2005 23:00


@ursus1974 wrote:
I just received my new Dimension 9100 and I'm trying to remove a lot of the pre-installed software. I removed "QuickBooks Simple Start Special Edition" from add/remove programs in the control panel, but now at start-up, I get a pop-up screen telling me to insert the QuickBooks Simple Start CD into the drive. Well, not only do I not want this software, Dell didn't even send me the CD. Anyone have any advice?
 
I am truly unimpressed with the amount of garbage software that came pre-installed on this system. What's more, my Service Tag isn't showing up on the Dell network, so I can't even email them to complain.
 
Save your breath and typing, Dell is not going to stop installing software that they gave revenue from installing...
 
Start, Run, Msconfig.  Click on Startup Tab.  Uncheck everything that this site says you can: http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php . When the computer reboots, check the box that says don't show me this again.  If it's X or N, uncheck it.

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