We often experience the pain of uninstalling several sharewares from a newly installed Windows OS from all PC manufacturers. There is no real option for us to buy PCs without the junk installed on them. Let alone PC, even printers come with software bundles which is a bunch of nonsense and unnecessary applications; most of them are evaluation based.

PC Pro Author David Bayon has rightly christened these software bundles as crapware. The image displayed below shows a typical printer installation menu which consists of several applications that do not add significant value.

From the article – Of all the printers I’ve owned, I’ve never made use of any of the bundled applications. OCR software I can admittedly see the point of, but apart from that there’s nothing useful this crapware does that I can’t do in the simple driver settings. Even in a graphics utility as basic as Microsoft Paint, clicking Print | Preferences brings up the very same options as you’ll find in something as advanced as Photoshop, so no expensive software is required to access your printer’s full potential.