cleaning

Greetings. New to the forum. Not new to Windows. For the past year, I've been using my personal laptop for work. I had two Office365 Profiles -- personal, and work. I've deleted the work profile, and have scoured the Registry for every instance of my former employer's name, and have removed...

Help my keyboard is acting up, it is suddenly typing random letters like 'y' types y7, and 't' types t4. This happened when I was cleaning my keyboard while it was on, I don't know I broke my computer or pressed something. Sticky keys and key filters are off, I have reinstalled my keyboard...

3 year old printer has worked fine until recently. It started printing lines - voids - thru the words. I did a nozzle check - a cleaning - a deep cleaning - I then printed a test page and nothing printed at all except the image of a printer and the words, windows test page, at the top of the...

When I go into the "privacy and security" settings for chrome, an option for cleaning comes up - "cached images and files" - does anyone know what that includes? Is this an option that could result in deletion of too much stuff? I am always hesitant to do this part of the clean up for that...

How can I remove the unwanted AD in the right corner of my desktop? I tried to uninstall and adwcleaner, it didn't help. Please help!

Does anyone know what those folders whose names are long sequences of hex numbers enclosed with brackets are used for? I have hundreds of them in my AppData directory and a hankering desire to remove them all! None of them appear to have any files in them.

Hi all, Just a question; "register cleaning tools... Must have or useless?" I've read several blogs and papers, so far there are two camps.. Witch one does your opinion subscribe to? And why?

My Windows folder in C drive is occupying 50gb of disk space. But the total space used by individual files in that folder adds up to 20gb. Please help me to remove that 30gb

I have searched the forums and Google, but have found nothing on my issue, so I hope someone else knows how to fix it. When I am clearing space by uninstalling programs and removing leftover files, the space goes up a little, but then it goes down next time I uninstall something. For example, I...

So long story short, my hard drive died on me so I installed a 1T SSD and got it up and running again. Couple days later it overheated twice. I wasn't doing anything that would require much processing. I only had a few tabs open in Fire Fox. The computer locked up and made a terrible noise from...

Hey guys i'm trying to clean up and remove programs installed i have a couple questions 1) do i need ALL of these (img below) 2) if not what do i keep 3) i noticed when i remove programs not everything is removed. things like app data docs and all that. is there a good program that will help to...

Hi All Please forgive me if this is a bit of a silly question, but I've noticed how my windows laptop has gone so slow over time. I understand that this is due to files being saved and slowing everything down (is that right?) As such, when I do an upgrade, will this clear out all the rubbish...

Hey Windowsforum memebers! I am looking for a Microsoft Windows cleaning utility. Not something like Ccleaner, but sort of a window with all the cleaning tools which are from Microsoft Windows itself.

I ran the windows MSRT and it kept on running, finally when it finished I viewed the report and there were thousands of bogus entries under win32, win64 & winNT. I believe they are associated with these two registration files but my system will not allow me to delete these items. Any advice...

This is rather worrying, today Malwarebytes finds a Trojan called Sathurbot however, when the computer reboots after cleaning, it's back in the icons folder. also google isn't aware of it's existence: Can anyone shed any light on this, much appreciated.

I have configured the latest version of Malwarebytes Antimalware program to make full scan of my pc every day and when the scan finishes, a message appears saying i must restart my pc for the cleaning process to finish. Can i disable this message? If yes then how?

Often, when I open a File Explorer window, other minimized open programs with buttons on the taskbar will not come to the front when I click on the button. (I then need to minimize F.E. Alt-Esc doesn't do anything in this circumstance). This started happening suddenly, but a system restore did...

I deleted my Music App. The whole page of red with the Head Phones in the middle of the page. At first it would not take my recorded music. Then suddenly it started to work. (Damn Gremlins) But then I got virused, and in cleaning up the PC I lost the Music app. Can you tell me how to get it back?

Don't wash your start menu in hot water

I am curious about Microsoft Windows. So I have a few questions. Microsoft Windows needs an antivirus program because it is in danger of getting viruses. Microsoft Windows also needs anti malware protection, antispyware protection.. Windows needs firewalls to protect from hackers. Windows...