The last must-have Windows 7 feature
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So far the Windows 7 beta is looking great, the taskbar is a huge improvement and the overall system performance is faster on similar hardware than Vista is. It is shaping up to be quite a success for Microsoft, but there is one last thing that it really needs. Windows 7, like Vista and like the other versions that came before it, still uses the registry and still is susceptible to being bogged down with bloatware that launches on startup. While the fact that the bloatware exists and is on the computer is not the fault of Windows - most manufacturers will be the ones that laden the computers with useless programs that do nothing but eat up memory - it is the fault of Windows that those programs are so hard to remove. Having worked at an electronics retailer for a few months, I saw first hand that those programs were so troublesome to people that they would gladly spend 50 dollars to pay one of our technicians to remove it from the system. You can remove them yourself but it is not easy, there is a startup folder in Windows and you can delete programs from that, but most of the programs will launch themselves from the registry and the only way to remove them is to get into the registry - and most computer users are terrified of that thought. What Windows 7 needs is a simple interface like the one that exists in OS X where you can go and see all of the applications that are not essential to the operating system and you can remove them. On the Mac it is under the user accounts area, a tab called login items. If Windows 7 can come up with before it is released I predict it will go a long way in winning back customers who have become frustrated with the bloatware and the slow downs that seem to always plague Windows.

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James Lehman
November 8th, 2009
at 1:56am
MSConfig.exe
Start Up tab
disable offending program
Uninstall if need be.
That is not difficult at all.