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8. There’s No Easy Way to Perform a Clean Install

Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo

I would love to buy a new laptop and be able to tell it not to include any of that annoying bloatware that comes default, but I can’t. I really don’t need the MSI Center or iBuyPower’s linkfest included on the Taskbar, but I have to wait until I get into Windows before I find all these extraneous programs to uninstall.

I wish I could install Windows and never have to see a hint about OneDrive, but that ability has been chipped away as we’ve moved on from the halcyon days of Windows XP. It would be great to get into Windows without needing to find and remove all these apps individually (or else follow a guide and run command prompts to install without a Microsoft account). Still, as of now, Windows would much prefer you to have all the pre-installed apps there to bombard you on startup.