Comments on: Annoying PC Programs

By: Arvin Bautista

Arvin Bautista — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:04:14 +0000

BTW, I just recently cut down my bootup time from 4 minutes to 1:10 because it turned out my wacom tablet drivers needed to be updated (they may have been corrupted from a reinstall previously), but before I figured out that was the problem I went and took out all the unnecessary windows services and scrubbed my PC clean.

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By: Wizard of OZ

Wizard of OZ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:28:39 +0000

You can always use the Lightning Calendar addon for Thunderbird.

You can also add Zonealarm to your list of slow-ware. My computer used to take nearly 5 or 6 minutes to boot until I disabled Zonealarm at start-up. Now it takes 50 seconds to a minute to boot, and then I start Zonealarm up afterwards. No more slow boot ups now.

By: Arvin Bautista

Arvin Bautista — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:40:16 +0000

Ugh, my father insists on putting Symantec utilities on every computer he can get his hands on, which includes the ones in their home (where I grew up) and my sister’s laptop. Whenever I’m home for break I have to sit through 10 minutes of startup, plus another 5 just to shut it down. He has it in his mind that these programs will save the computer, but with the lost productivity in starting up, just keeping the computer shut down is as effective a way of making sure the computer never gets viruses or loses data.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:08:19 +0000

I thought Windows Sidebar deserves a mention and it doesn’t help that vista craws right along with it.

By: Rico

Rico — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:29:35 +0000

I really don’t want to turn this into a Photoshop-GIMP war, but honestly, Photoshop isn’t something i’d call elephantware or bloatware. It’s not a fast-loading app, sure. It’s the kind of app that, if you’re using it professionally, you just pretty much keep loaded. Once it’s open, it’s stable and compared to other programs doing similar tasks, pretty fast. If the startup time is too long, you can remove plugins and whatnot, and similarly there’s tweaks to improve its performance. It’s also a pro level app, which The GIMP is not. That’s not to say that The GIMP can’t be used in that capacity, but there’s features in Photoshop that you just won’t find in The GIMP. From my experience The GIMP chokes and sometimes stops responding when working on large files, an area Photoshop doesn’t have a problem with.

The only real bloat to me with Photoshop is with the bundled Adobe Bridge, which is a separate app and not needed to run Photoshop. Even at idle with nothing loaded it takes 50MB of RAM.

By: saad

saad — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:57:05 +0000

oh………martin.what are you saying.will u add those norton utilities which can make your computer load in approximately 10 minutes

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:23:11 +0000

I avoid to use all of them (and Symantec too – oh, once Norton Utilites was really helpful and handy but it was a decade ago… ).
But chiefs on my old work forced me to work in Outlook. I really hate that fat, buggy, stupid and ugly monster.

As for Elephantware…

OpenOffice.org is loading slowly and consuming much of memory. But as for me it is most functional alternative for MS Office.

And I hate Photoshop. It sucks. I tried it in 2005 and want never see it again. The GIMP is MUCH better for personal use, I find it easier to learn {and I’m really not familiar with sophisticated graphics editors}, it is localised in many languages, and version 2.4 is just beautiful.