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    Visible and Invisible ACER software !!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by kiriakost, May 7, 2009.

  1. kiriakost

    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    Well I am a bit confused , by discovering software on my ACER Hidden partition,
    that it does not installed by the first run , if you do the well know erecovery.

    I found in this partition , Microsoft Works ... CyberLink PowerDVD for ACER .
    Another software of CyberLink about making videos .


    After my first use of erecovery , to factory defaults ... Found that i had no DVD player ... found accidentally one copy of (CyberLink PowerDVD for ACER)
    and got it installed .

    Yesterday , I started just for fun to explore the files , of my erecovery partition,
    and found lots of hidden treasures ( Way of speech ) . :)

    If you launch the erecovery from windows , and ask to restore drivers and additional software , the erecovery decompress those files , and gives you the option to install them .

    The Microsoft Works ,and the CyberLink about making videos, its not visible .
    You will be able to find this software only if you start to explore the folders,
    after making the erecovery partition visible.

    This is what i found on my old ACER , its possible at the new ones to find even more stuff.

    Another place that i found hidden software was in some folders of my C:\ drive ( Yes made by ACER ) ... I found some advanced Microsoft tools, about XP diagnosis ,plus file checkers , and directory comparison tools.

    Lots of interesting stuff , if you like to explore things.

    All software looks legal , it can be used just by installing it .

    I liked a lot the Microsoft Works , loaded with nice templates , but as far i looked there is no option for Greek spell checker , and with out it , its not that useful to me , That why i use OpenOffice .
     
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  2. Full-English

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    I had all of this installed with My 5920 when I first got it. Some of it may be useful to someone but it's pretty much bloatware for a lot of others.
     
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  3. kiriakost

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    About bloatware , i have not see a fresh ACER to understand the term.

    One DVD player , and one free well made Text editor , belong to the " Must have " if you own a laptop.


    On another notice , modern ACERs use special software , about locking files or the hard drive ( Called as eLock & eSecurity ) .

    I started to explore my Bios , and after setting the Supervisor password,
    a lot of security options just showed up in the Bios , even to lock the hard drive with the Supervisor password , in order to be invisible if this hard drive was placed in another device so to be read .

    Amazing stuff for my taste , just by the Bios settings . ;)

    My ACER never planed to run ( eLock & eSecurity )
    But it still haves the ability hidden in it .

    Thats why i have start to like ACER , it keeps surprising me ,
    with a pleasurable manner . :D
     
    kiriakost, May 7, 2009
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