Aggressive finds more and is your best bet. Default mode is designed for computer novices who might not be able to understand which software to remove and which to keep - it's safer, but doesn't find all potential problematic programs. Unlike the other two, however, it also looks at browser extensions, plugins, ActiveX objects and other add-ins that might be considered bloat.īefore you run a scan, it's a good idea to go to Settings -> Advanced and change the Scanner Threshhold mode from Default to Aggressive.
The free Slim Computer, like The PC Decrapifier and Should I Remove It?, uses crowdsourcing to determine which software on your PC is bloatware, and then lets you decide which to remove and which to leave. Unfortunately, though, unlike The PC Decrapifier, Should I Remove It? doesn't report on startup items. The site has capsule descriptions of each piece of software to help you decide whether you think that application belongs on your system. What's truly exceptional about Should I Remove It, though, is not the program itself, but the accompanying website, which has a tremendous amount of detail about bloatware. Should I Remove It? recommends what to get rid of and what to keep - in this case, on a Dell PC. It didn't find or list any startup programs such as ehTray.exe and NvCplDaemon. It rated the Google Updater and a Nook PC app as green. On my old system, it found no reds, and only two orange: Dell System Customization Wizard and Dell Documentation Launcher.
Should I Remove It? displays all the programs it finds on your PC and color-codes them according to the removal rates - red for most removed, orange for moderate removal rates, green for low. For each program it finds, it shows not only the percentage of other users who removed it, but also the rating they gave to the program itself, which is more helpful than the simpler data that The PC Decrapifier offers. Like PC Decrapifier, the free program Should I Remove It? uses crowdsourcing to determine which software should be removed and which shouldn't.
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