Useless Pieces Of Crap

Many potential items could be listed here, however a particularly common scenario is the user who can't get Internet Explorer to work. One look at the computer and it's hardly surprising why the browser doesn't work; the user has every toolbar under the sun and then some more.

The amount of screen space these useless pieces of crap take up is so high it's often a miracle that the user is able to see any web pages at all. Google Toolbar, Yahoo Toolbar, eBay, Windows Live, etc. Add on all the spyware crap such as MyWebSearch and friends and that's a good third of the screen totally wasted.

It's scary really because you don't drive your car with a third of the windscreen covered up do you? So why do people insist on browsing with hundreds of toolbars they don't actually need?

On another theme of useless pieces of crap, software like RegCure and "System Optimizer 2008" and other similiar products turns up on a lot of computers. All of the "errors" that these programs flag up aren't real errors, and if somebody's registry really was screwed or corrupt then you'd have known about it by the time you get to RegCure, I'd hope anyway.

This goes back to the saga of people attempting to fix their own computers. Does anybody who isn't a mechanic take the car to pieces?