cleanup

I keep getting a nagging pop up suggesting I remove temporary files and delete the old Windows installation. I am not sure why I would want to do this, particularly if I wanted to revert to Windows 7 within the 1 month allowed by Microsoft ?

Hello ya'll. I have uninstalled Setpoint Software with Advanced Uninstaller but of course, checking through the Registry, I do find at least one remnant of it still. I'll post a screenshot of what I mean. I need to know if I should delete the whole folder or just the stuff within the folder...

Hi! Sense we don't have a malware team here on the forum, here's some great tools you can use to clean a infected PC. I have used all of them and they get the job done. Rather then me listing the software, this link does the job for me!;);) Please add any programs that you use and recommend. If...

Good morning, day and evening. Yesterday I ran Adwcleaner in attempt to remove some junk that made my computer choppy ONLY when moving the mouse cursor. I do not know if the problem is resolved, because after running it, I can't access the internet on any applications beside from Internet...

An investigation of my 64bit Win 7 systems shows that the folder C:\Windows\assembyl\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_64\Temp\ has almost 12 GB content. I have never seen such a big space occupation before (for a Windows "Temp") directory. I must have bloated in the last weeks. What could be the...

Hi Today I was trying to delete some old video project folders. I had one folder that had dozens of files created by Adobe Premiere Elements that I don't need to keep anymore. The thing was that every time I tried to delete them I got a message saying that the file names were too long to...

Assume some programs (which of cause do not belong to the "core" Win 7 system) created some services.. During deinstallation the original programs these programs do NOT cleanup their corrsponding services. So is there a way to deinstall services later in another way? I don't want to just...

I have the MS Store icon (shopping Bag) on my taskbar and the tile in the start menu. When I try to open either I get the blue screen with the shopping bag in center then the screen goes turns to white and nothing else happens. The bar across top has the word "store" on the left and the usual...

I had 5 files =oice in %temp% which would never go away as all files eventually do. There are other files seen on the attachment. I used uncover to remove the oice files but am unsure if I should remove these in the attachment. I ran DISM and finally reported no corruption.

Would you help, please? every time I run AdwCleaner, v9.com is always being found. this is very persistent.. I even run Mbam, Windows Defender, MSERT.. only AdwCleaner find this. I always clean it as suggested by AdwCleaner... Below is the detail...

Hey all I have an older gateway here that was just full of viruses and whatnot after some cleanup it was still just buggy so I restored it to day one but I realize windows xp support has ended, is there anyway to bring it up to date manually easily?

I suppose my foray into Torrents ended up causing me a few minor problems. It might be fun to try to remove whatever is actually causing this, but Malware Bytes has found problems prior and these are recent so the problem endures. If I wanted to try to remove the problem, any suggestions...

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My cousin brought me his Acer Aspire running Vista for me to clean up. I have done this, but he has no icons on his desktop. He does have a desktop background picture. Furthermore, I attempted to add 2 new icons and they don't appear as well. there a setting somewhere to fix this? Thank you

Long Story short: I installed Windows on last summer or last 5 months from the past, Then My dad installed for me the D-Link because EZ driver was damaged, I thought I was installing Mozilla, Posting on Tom's Hardware where it causes the problems, I uninstalled Win8 Transform Pack, and I'm...

just manually deleting everything in it didn't help. it has a lot of crap files that aren't going away. ideas?

for example if i install winrar and uninstall it if some expert will look good he can see there was winrar installed on the OS how can i erase software in way no1 will know that this kind of software was installed on the OS without formatting the entire OS thanks

A thing or 2 that puzzles me : 1. During installing Win 10 to my VMware Player ( host os is Win 7 ), I was never asked for product key. After install. it was activated automatically. So, what is that generic product key used for ? 2. MS has set Windows Updates as Auto. I hate Bing and have...

Problems: Your computer has been infiltrated with browser redirection malware. This redirection malware often jumps you over to to a fake Java website which is a phishing scam. Once you arrive on this page, by clicking on a hyperlink and being redirected, do not click on anything on that page...