HP Pavilion 17-g121wm annoyances.
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I got to spend an evening installing a non-hp provided copy of Windows 10 on a new Pavilion 17-g121wm. Why did I not re-install the included factory image? It was infested with malware!
HP, I get it. You have to make money some way, and pre-installing apps is a way to do that. In this case however, it went WAY to far. These people hadn't even gotten their anti-virus software installed before everything went sideways.
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@travisdh1 said:
I got to spend an evening installing a non-hp provided copy of Windows 10 on a new Pavilion 17-g121wm. Why did I not re-install the included factory image? It was infested with malware!
HP, I get it. You have to make money some way, and pre-installing apps is a way to do that. In this case however, it went WAY to far. These people hadn't even gotten their anti-virus software installed before everything went sideways.
I had the displeasure of helping someone not too long ago that bought some junk system from Best Buy. It had like 40 different anti-virus programs installed and then all of these Best Buy "apps", plus stuff like Wild Tangent.
What's worse is I'm sure the apps are completely out of date because there is no way they could make money if they had someone update all of the images all the time.
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Those GS people basically work for free, they could have them do it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Those GS people basically work for free, they could have them do it.
Ha true. A long time ago I applied to that crap. They didn't even want to pay $10 an hour. Waste of time.
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Do what Lenovo do. Put out a call, over plain text http, to "the mother ship" and download the latest version. Scheduled after every boot/reboot for good measure.
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@nadnerB said:
Do what Lenovo do. Put out a call, over plain text http, to "the mother ship" and download the latest version. Scheduled after every boot/reboot for good measure.
I told them to watch for that happening, actually. Haven't heard back, so HP hasn't stooped that low, yet.
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Reinstalling the OS from generic media is my personal preference for any new computer. Get rid of the crap the OEMs bake in.
The only time this didn't work well for me was Vista pre SP1. The OEMs seem to be able to get the machines to run OK, but damn, once you blew their install away and installed from generic media and then installed the OEM's drivers - it was never as good.
But outside of Vista pre SP1 - I've never had an issue doing this.
