Hi Bob,
I had a new Dell, two years old now, and it was this PC which had a
keyboard problem identical to another poster to this list. We both are
running Windows 7 64-bit it was for this reason that I wrote a
knowledge-base article, just in case others might have the same issue..
Here is the title and URL:
GWKB2042 - Unassigning Hot Keys for Input Languages in Windows 7
http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/?kbnumber=GWKB2042
All the best,
Rod
On 11/17/13 5:58 PM, bob jutzi wrote:
Fortunately, my new Dell didn't ship with any crapwear other than
McAfee and Cybermedia.
However, I did need to use NVDA and the mouse in order to remove
McAfee due to its screwy UI.
On 11/17/2013 4:58 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
Below is an article from Gizmo Tech Tips on a free utility which removes
all the third-party programs thrown on to a new pc. Pay special
attention to the fact that by default, this utility removes everything
(which would include Window-Eyes) which isn’t part of Windows, so you’ll
want to configure it for the manual mode, where you get to review its
changes before they take place:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/free-app-make-your-new-pc-cleaner-and-faster.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GizmosTechTips+%28Gizmo%27s+Tech+Tips%29
Unfortunately, when you buy a new PC, one of the first things you have
to do is clean
off the third-party junk software (more colorfully known as crapware)
that the PC
manufacturer has loaded on it. The manufacturers get paid to stick a lot
of trialware
and other largely extraneous stuff on new PCs. It clutters your desktop
and hard
drive and slows things down with unwanted processes automatically
running in the
background.
You can go through the laborious process of uninstalling the stuff one
by one or
you can use one of the free programs that have been designed
specifically for this
task. A long-term regular in this category is PC Decrapifier (
reviewed here
) but there is now a more recent entry worth looking at called
“Decrap”.
Decrap is from the well-known software vendor Macecraft. It is free but
is based
on one of the components of a commercial suite of Windows system tools
sold by Macecraft.
A description of the application and the download links are
at this page
. There is a version with an installer as well as a zipped portable
version. The
link for the portable version is easy to miss but is in small print
under the big
download button for the installer version. I only tried the portable
version. The
program is said to run in all current Windows versions and in both 32-
and 64-bit
systems. It worked for me in Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8.1 64-bit.
The portable
version should be placed in its own folder since it creates some cache
and settings
files when used.
This program is best used on a new computer before you have installed
any of your
own programs. Programs can be removed manually or in an automatic mode.
This latter
should be used with great care since it uninstalls
all
third-party software. Anything you installed yourself will also be
removed in the
automatic mode.
The program will create a list of items that it targets for possible
removal. Here
are the categories of items that can be removed:
Automatically starting software
Desktop items
Start menu items
Third party software
Windows related software.
The default serttng has every item in the list checked for removal so
you will need
to uncheck whatever entries you wish to keep before running the manual
process.The
removal process also includes a deletion of Registry entries for
programs that are
uninstalled.
There is an automatic backup process but it is always advisable to
create your own
backup before using programs of this type.
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