Recent content by Brunette

Ah crap in the end I chose the Installer. But good news is, it worked!!!!! And it was so easy! Thank you so much Joe, you're a hero!

Thanks Joe!! I'm a complete idiot when it comes to this stuff, but which one is the exe version?

Hi everyone, Like a lot of people, I do not want to install Win10. I tried it and my WiFi didn't work at all anymore, no matter what I tried, so I switched back to Win8.1. However, since then, whenever I install Windows updates, I get this message: "Your upgrade to Windows 10 is ready". And...

Thanks for all your help! I did use the McAfee removal tool. After a few reboots and one cold reboot, Chrome started working again, so let's hope it stays that way... :s

I I'm sorry to bother you again, but since uninstalling McAfee Google Chrome does not start anymore...

Right, thank you! Iwill remove McAfee then. Yes the Yahoo search engine definitely has something to do with McAfee, when "safe search" is enabled, McAfee changes my search engine to Yahoo...

Thank you so much for the information! One more thing I just remembered, it may be useful to say that I do use McAfee's safe search function, and sometimes this function has been turned off. When I turn it back on, my default search engine has been changed from Google to Yahoo. Is this something...

Thank you again! So merely using malwarebytes and avast is not sufficient? I do not use any maintenance...

Hi Kemical, Thank you! No unusual toolbars, just slower performance and the fact that my computer shut itself off a couple of times, without any reason.

Hi everyone, Today my computer started working very slowly and I couldn't open Malwarebytes anymore. When I, later today, tried to get it out of sleep mode, it shut itself off. When I tried to reboot, it shut itself off again. The second time it worked though, and everything seemed normal...