cleanup

I mistakenly downloaded Dictonary Boss / mindspark tool bar on my laptop and now I can't get rid of it . It dosen't show up on my list of programs in control panel . It does show up on the start menu in my computer check up . when I open the file from there and try to deleat it ,a message...

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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...

Hi, Does anyone know any good maintenance software for Windows? I currently use ccleaner and it's great, but I want to know if there is any other software out there that might provide more functionality and is free. Thanks! :)

Hello Does anyone know where I can have a log file created and analyzed trying to remove malware?

I had a problem with snap.do becoming installed on my win 7 machine. Ran uninstall, ccleaner and spybot which removed the problem, however the name snap.do engine still remains in control panel features and programs. I have also done a registry edit and can find no software relating to this...

Hello guys! I'm wondering about a script I made after the installation of my Windows 7 x64 ISO is done. The script (bat) contains this: How should I implant this script after the Win7 installation is done. Tried with SetupComplete (see spolier): Problem is, I cant use GPO either...

Hi My friend Paul has a message keep popping up in the lower right hand corner of his monitor saying that it is Windows Security Essentials and that it has found a virus that needs to be removed. The thing is it doesn't look quite right to me, the window is yellow and doesn't look like...

hello everyone i have installed windows 8.1 clean setup, i have erased windows partition and then created it for some weird reason it would show me boot screen whether i have to decide to choose between Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 XE Loader how do i get rid of that? please help me, its annoying

Hello, My machine has been running a bit sluggish recently. After running various clean up tools this does not seem to change the performance on boot up and i still get a few errors that come up sometimes. I have been searching the internet and found this site answered a couple of the issues i...

I installed and used today the recently introduced (with KB 2852386) new Disk Cleanup Utility. After having performed the cleanup with multiple reboots I rechecked the size of the C:\Windows\winsxs\ folder. The size shrinks from approx 12.5 GB to 11GB Wow! :-( Is there something wrong...

One of the files is called: iLiVid_setup ( I believe ) and the other is: video_downloader -------------------------------- I need help to try and remove this from happening, I checked when they were modified to see when they were downloaded and the video_downloader says it was 3am when it...

Whenever I get and install hotfixes/patches for Windows 7 a copy of them is stored somewhere on the system partition for backup/uninstall purposes. Where (in which directory) are they put in detail? How can I uninstall them? MS has just releases a patch to cleanup them through DIsk Cleanup...

A warning keeps saying that I have low disk space. Free or paid programs should I take? I really wonder which folders occupy the most space. These huge hidden files almost drive me crazy.