> The OEM agreement with Microsoft probably prohibits their removing > anything that comes with a standard windows installation.
I doubt it as a lot of the stuff included in not Microsoft stuff. My guess is that they include the other stuff for the same reason you get advertising with your newspaper. Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: XP question - dudes, i got my dell > The OEM agreement with Microsoft probably prohibits their removing > anything that comes with a standard windows installation. > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >>That's really odd - and annoying. I've seen a couple-three Dell >>commercials on TV and the ad makes a point of saying that you can have it >>"your way." Well, the crap can be removed if you so desire. >> >>Shel >> >> >> >> >> >>>[Original Message] >>>From: Ann Sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >>>Date: 10/4/2006 2:42:38 PM >>>Subject: Re: OT: XP question - dudes, i got my dell >>> >>>Shel Belinkoff wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Why wouldn't they? >>>> >>>>Shel >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>[Original Message] >>>>>From: Ann Sanfedele >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Actually... >>>>>I asked that NO games be installed on my >>>>>computer but they wouldn't honor that >>>>> >>>>> >>>Who the F knows? >>> >>>ann >>> >>>-- >>>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>PDML@pdml.net >>>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. > > --Albert Einstein > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net