#1: Crappy software installed on a new laptop computer

So i got these new laptops, from Lenovo, featuring of course all this proprietary poo poo that enables stuff like all the function keys, has a backup partition, facilitates backing up and BIOS updates and software updates and all that stuff. I'm not even talking about all the antivir demo's etc.

So of course, when I get home and hook it up it's already outdated. So I run the software updater thing from Lenovo. It then downloads 800MB, i have no idea why it needs to download stuff as big as 8 modern operating systems just to do... backups... but fine, it's quite fast. Some time later it just tells me more than half of the updates 'could not be installed'. Oh, great. So a few days later after having had it lying around I open it up again and restart a few times, and run the updater. It tells me I need to update the updater, and it does. It then hangs. I reboot, rerun the updater. It downloads another 700MB of shit. Then when it's installing, this separate Installshield wizard pops up for one of the 'security' things, and i click through it, only to get to a page which says 'The following programs are using files that need to be replaced. Please close the following programs: ThinkVantage System Update'. You guessed it, I can't touch it because it's the one that opened this wizard, and besides, it still has some updates to install!

What the fuck.