I can back you up on that one Dr Strangelove. Got a new computer last winter & a buddy told me to download ccleaner. Good stuff, no hassel, and does a great job keeping the system clean and clog free. Wish all programs could work as simple as this one and be as effective.
Computer geeks....simple issue help.
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I am telling you, I know there are members on here who have never cleaned out their cpu, they would save so much space and speed up their computer bigtime!!!
I am pretty sure if you download either spybot or ad-aware, there is an option in those programs to change the home page, that probably works with the reg key that BDB mentioned earlier
Someone mentioned getting rid of AOL, that is great as long as you don't use AOL. These companies are not going to uninstall this software, this is how they get subcribers and to buy things by putting in on every machine that goes out the door.
If you have a buddy, you could try turning on remote assistance where you allow him to connect to your machine and do it, and you never have to leave the house. There are some requirements for this, and I think maybe broadband is required, and you have to use outlook or MSN messenger to send the invitation or something like that
Someone mentioned getting rid of AOL, that is great as long as you don't use AOL. These companies are not going to uninstall this software, this is how they get subcribers and to buy things by putting in on every machine that goes out the door.
If you have a buddy, you could try turning on remote assistance where you allow him to connect to your machine and do it, and you never have to leave the house. There are some requirements for this, and I think maybe broadband is required, and you have to use outlook or MSN messenger to send the invitation or something like that
To me.....the thing that pisses me off the most?
They have Geek Squad at Best Buy, and I paid $150 bucks for the shit that they do to "prep" the computer. They put in anti spyware.....anti virus protection.....and they offer to take out all the pre-intsalled crap! I asked them to remove it all! Either this thing is THAT independent, or they just missed it. Either way, I am giving them a call today.
They have Geek Squad at Best Buy, and I paid $150 bucks for the shit that they do to "prep" the computer. They put in anti spyware.....anti virus protection.....and they offer to take out all the pre-intsalled crap! I asked them to remove it all! Either this thing is THAT independent, or they just missed it. Either way, I am giving them a call today.
sorry, i don't
YYZ,
if they will give you a full refund, go for it. I can give you the best anti-virus program, anti-adware/spyware programs, remove the AOL crap all for free. Save your $, if only people knew more about this they would save their money.
I will lead you the the proper website and we'll take a look at yoru cpu, within hours it will be all done, if not sooner. If you need my email get it from jack. There was a member junior 44 who had many problems and now it has all been corrected out.
Everyone should have on their cpu the following:
Ad-aware
spybot
ATF cleaner
Crap cleaner
CCleaner
Spywareblaster
Spywareguard
Mozilla Browser, NOT IE
CWS Shredder
AVG Antivrus, not Norton (it sucks and people pay for it),
Hijack This
And perform the following on a monthly basis:
EWIDO Scan
PandaHouse scan
Housecall Scan
The great thing about is it's FREE. I have never had a cookie, virsus, trojan, malware or spyware on my laptop since I became informed of such programs and daily routines. CPU runs like new all the time.
SO, if anyone has noticed tht their cpu has slowed down, that is a sign.
Questiom Doc I down loaded cleaner on home computer and now have a yahoo bar including search engine-messenger ect that runs across entire screen.. How do I get rid of it?
THe yahoo toolbar is part of the package that comes with CCleaner, most like it, some don't want it, (if you have IE it is good to have), but it is not spyware. To get rid of it there are two methods we can try. First, click on my computer, go under program files, scroll to the bottom and you should see YAHOO. right click and delete. Empty your recycle bin, reboot and it should be gone. Let me know ( I have class 6-9pm EST tonight). I'll check after that
Thanks Doc--I right clicked on toolbar and
un checked yahoo tool bar and got rid of it.
Cleaner did good job--thank you Had to re enter a few pass words I assume that were stored as cookies so far but nothing major and computer running MUCH better.
un checked yahoo tool bar and got rid of it.
Cleaner did good job--thank you Had to re enter a few pass words I assume that were stored as cookies so far but nothing major and computer running MUCH better.
Good to hear!
also DTB, don't forget to run cleaner on both WINDOWS and APPLICATIONS tabs.
On the very left hand side click on ISSUES, then click on SCAN FOR ISSUES, when it is complete, click on FIX SELECTED ISSUES, then click on NO to backup changes in registry, then click on FIX ALL and voila you're done.
Do you know how much space it saved you?
Complete thanks again--I must have overlooked where it said how much space was saved and don't know how to retrieve it.
CLEANING COMPLETE - (58.045 secs)
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2,423.4MB removed.
Wow ! :SIB :SIB
I also found, i needed to run "issues" several times before 0 were identified.
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good job guys, remember after a scan, to click on issues (all the way on the left) and scan that as well.
Gentleman, we have a new record.
Can anyone beat this?
CLEANING COMPLETE - (141.362 secs)
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4,630.1MB removed.
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Also, had 481 issues fixed!!! :scared
Funny how I never have this type of bs on my mac...
Can anyone beat this?
CLEANING COMPLETE - (141.362 secs)
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4,630.1MB removed.
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Also, had 481 issues fixed!!! :scared
Funny how I never have this type of bs on my mac...
