Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Neither ZDNET nor the author are compensated for these independent reviews. This helps support our work, but does not affect what we cover or how, and it does not affect the price you pay. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. At best these programs are bloatware that take up valuable drive space, but they could also be a security risk-in 2014, Lenovo laptops were found to include malware.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. The thing is, you didn't ask for these things to be on your computer and it's invasive to have it pushed on you. These programs could be software trials (commonly for things like antivirus) or manufacturer suites that apparently help get the best out of your system. Little things like a branded wallpaper can occur, but often you'll also find that some less useful programs have been pre-installed. Often it's done more for the benefit of the manufacturer than the consumer. Sometimes this is done to make it more convenient for the user, like having all relevant drivers installed, but you can get these through Windows Update anyway. This is because most manufacturers will install or customize the system in a particular way. Despite running Windows, the installation isn't exactly the same as if you had built the computer and installed the operating system yourself. The first time you booted up your new pre-built computer, you entered a system with factory settings. You'd be forgiven for thinking that returning your computer to factory settings is an entirely clean slate. It's the state that your computer was in when it left the factory. "Factory settings" are exactly what they imply.
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