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Purchased a new HP Pavilion 500-309 from Staples. HP deskop included Windows 8.1 - which was setup and automatically patched when I started the PC. I have not installed any other software on the PC - I'm only using the default Windows provided by HP. Everytime I logged onto the PC - I get reminders about Farmville updates. Why does HP install Farmville and some program called Pokki on their default Windows installation? I have not been able to uninstall Farmville and Pokki from the PC. How do I remove it? Why would HP include crapware on a their PC that can't be removed? Side-note: Please stop pre-installing half-baked software on your PC. This maybe the last time I purchase an HP PC. I would expect that PC just came with Windows 8.1. It does not say anywhere on the box, documentation or online that other software will be installed. Instead of a clean install of Windows 8.1, I now have a PC with junk software.

I too am very disappointed with HP pre-installing crapware Pokki. Not only does it constantly try to upsell software it actively HIJACKED MY BROWSER. Worse still, it HIJACKED MY CHILDREN'S BROWSERs and they are on non-admin accounts monitored by Family Safety. It seems that at least once a month, Pokki does an "update" which is really an upsell in disguise. It pre-ticks a box to get fake consent for an install of additional software or OS config changes. The worst one so far was the "HOMEPAGE-WEB" browser hijacker. I had locked my daughter's accounts to Google Safe Search to protect them, and yet Pokki saw fit to override this and change their browser search engines to an unsafe commercial service with no content filtering. Also, it is not installed in a conventional manner, it is installed separately into the Default User profile, so that a conventional Uninstall does not work. This is awful malware-like activity and you should be ashamed of pre-installing it on your machines. Please provide an uninstall tool, as the true removal technique for this software is NOT covered in the link you provided from the vendor. Also, you must take MORE RESPONSIBILITY for the crapware you pre-install, do NOT pass the buck, you installed this software.

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