If you’re a long-term computer user, you’ve probably installed Antivirus software, firewalls, backup software, or debuggers on your PC before. All these utilities, which are also called Utility ...

Abstract: The term "computer utility" has been perennially present in the history of computing, though a precise definition of the term has been fleeting, even when it first appeared in the Mid-1960s.

Even in this day and age, computer manufacturers continue to stuff their PCs with bloatware -- promotional software, trial offers, toolbars, advertising links, and other junk nobody wants. That stuff ...