It's not Microsoft that's to blame. If you want a Microsoft product you should goto Microsoft's official site for it You should always try to download software from source rather than third party web sites. Many of these are now offering downloads of free software but packaging it with quantities, often overwhelming quantities, of "crapware". This stuff is at best a nuisance and at worst a serious threat to security and can be very difficult to remove. Some software authors make their money by only offering their software via such downloader front ends. I found one only today (opaque taskbar) which seemed to offer no way of installing other than along with a cartload of junk. So first try and get a clean junk free installer, preferably direct from the package creator, and second, whenever you do install a downloaded package take great care to read what you are downloading (the download page is often covered with various "download" buttons which may be for something completely different to what you want - you will be presented with a large coloured download button linking to some crapware and a tiny link further down for the software you really want. Thirdly look carefully at what is being done at each stage of the install, never accepting express or default installs and thinking twice before clicking on accept/proceed etc.