Useless Crud Alert無用的污物警報

How many useless apps do you have running on your PC?有多少無用的應用程序你運行你的電腦？ If you’re like me there’s probably at least half a dozen.如果你像我一樣有可能至少半打。 Winzip, for instance, costs money, spews out links all over the place and was superseded by Windows’ built in zip functionality.壓縮，例如，成本錢，排放出的聯繫各地，並取代Windows的內置壓縮功能。 If you really need an archiving/compression tool use the freebie 7-zip instead.如果你真的需要一個歸檔/壓縮工具的免費使用7 -拉鍊代替。

Dodgy codec packs?躲閃編解碼器包？ Did you ever try and run a video only to find it required a new codec installed in your media player, and you hit OK to download and install it?您曾經想過嘗試並運行一個視頻才發現它需要一個新的編解碼器安裝在您的媒體播放器，和你打確定下載並安裝它？ Hmmm. Hmmm 。 Well…the only one you will really ever need is嗯...只有你會真正以往任何時候都需要 ffdshow or或 VLC media player可變長編碼的媒體播放器 , which between them will handle everything you can throw at them. ，其中它們之間將負責處理一切你可以向他們扔。 VLC has the added advantage of being able to mount ISO disk images, so you don’t even need to burn that pirated backup copy of your legitimate bought DVD.可變長編碼的優勢是能夠安裝磁盤映像國際標準化組織，所以你甚至不需要刻錄盜版備份您的合法買的DVD 。 (Note, VLC is a GUI front-end to the core codec of ffdshow). （請注意，可變長編碼是一個GUI前端的核心編解碼器的ffdshow ） 。 Thanks to由於 Anil Dash阿尼爾達什 for the 7-zip and ffdshow links.在7 - zip和ffdshow的聯繫。

Among the comments on Anil’s post were recommendations not to include proprietary instant messagers but to use在評論阿尼爾的職位被建議不包括專有即時messagers但使用 Trillian共舞 or或 WinGAIM instead.代替。 Why have Adobe Reader when you could install the much more expressive為什麼Adobe Reader的時候你可以安裝更多的表現 FoxIt福昕 ? ？ (Note, FoxIt can mess up when displaying some graphics, which means it’s not 100% the best alternative to Adobe Reader, （請注意，福昕可以搞糟時，顯示一些圖形，這意味著它不是100 ％的最佳替代品的Adobe Reader ， SumatraPDF may be better) And, if you want download resume functionality don’t install an accelerator, grab the Firefox extension可能是更好的） ，如果你想下載功能恢復不安裝一個加速器，抓住Firefox擴展 DownThemAll . 。 That way you’ll avoid lots of complications, such as spyware and a rack of new desktop links you never wanted.這樣，你會避免許多並發症，如間諜軟件和機架的新的桌面鏈接，您從來不想。 If you have to install Useless Crud always choose the custom option.如果您已經安裝無用Crud總是選擇自定義選項。

Anil’s post inspired the guys at Lifehacker to come up with even more examples of Useless Crud you should not have on your PC, probably not too hard as Anil only made two suggestions, winzip and codecs.阿尼爾後鼓舞了球員在Lifehacker拿出更無用的例子Crud您不應該在電腦上，可能不會太硬的阿尼爾只有兩個建議， WinZip和編解碼器。 I wonder whether he deliberately didn’t write a proper list as some kind of linkbait experiment…我不知道他是否故意不寫一個適當的清單作為某種linkbait實驗...

Anyway, to avoid (seriously avoid) and in no particular order: Nokia software, Real software, ntl netguard (VirginMedia product), almost any browser toolbar, any software offered by a pr0n site, iTunes, anything made by Corel, AOL, Symantec, Norton, and Yahoo, desktop weather applications (basically spyware and you don’t need constant weather forecasts unless you’re navigating an ocean-going vessel or flying an aircraft).總之，為了避免（認真避免） ，並在沒有特定的順序為：諾基亞軟件，實時軟件， NTL的netguard （ VirginMedia產品） ，幾乎所有的瀏覽器工具欄，任何軟件所提供的pr0n網站時， iTunes ，任何所作的Corel公司，美國在線，賽門鐵克，諾頓，雅虎，桌面天氣應用（基本上間諜軟件和你不需要不斷天氣預報除非你航行的遠洋船隻或飛機飛行） 。

Ultimately, however, you might even consider Windows itself to be useless crud in which case you’re possibly a Mac user or toying with Ubuntu Linux, neither of which are really much use for power users unfortunately.然而，歸根結底，你甚至會考慮Windows本身是無用的污物在這種情況下，你可能是Mac用戶或醞釀Ubuntu Linux操作系統，但這兩者都不是真正使用的大部分電力用戶不幸。