What are Reddit's favorite Software Uninstaller Apps?
AppCleaner
Unchecky
Bulk Crap Uninstaller
Geek Uninstaller
Should I Remove It?
Puran Utilities
CleanMyMac X
Advanced Uninstaller PRO
O&O AppBuster
PrivaZer
RPM Package Manager
AppRemover
CCleaner
Total Uninstall
YUM Package Manager
Uninstall Tool
HiBit Uninstaller
AppZapper
Your Uninstaller!
JetClean
Windows Repair Toolbox
Wise Program Uninstaller
Crap Killer
All-In-One Toolbox
Yamicsoft Windows Manager
GIGATweaker
TrashMe
Mirekusoft Install Monitor
Top Reddit reviews mentioning Software Uninstaller Apps:
> Additionally, if you’ve ever installed the Zoom client and then uninstalled it, you still have a localhost web server on your machine that will happily re-install the Zoom client for you, without requiring any user interaction on your behalf besides visiting a webpage. This re-install ‘feature’ continues to work to this day.
This is just unacceptable, when users decide to manually uninstall software you're not supposed to leave a form of backdoor to allow an easy and silent reinstall procedure. I would never do business with a company that does or even has a track record of having done this.
Reminder that there are decent tools that will cleanup files "left behind" this way like Bulk Crap Uninstaller (free and open-source) which should prevent most of those problems.
Uninstalling apps on macOS can be frustrating since Apple doesn't provide a standard means of doing so. I personally use AppCleaner and have for years.
[edit] Anyone care to explain why the downvotes? Genuinely interested, since my response is relevant to OPs question.
It removes leftover folders and registry entries
If it thinks the removal of some registry entries is dangerous it will warn you
It batch uninstalls programs and also has a "silent mode" that automatically clicks on buttons in the background
Sounds like you did a cut and paste instead of a copy and paste. I always do copy and paste when it's important, then delete once the copy completes successfully and I can verify the copy works as intended. You can try using this on both drives. I'm not sure if there is a program that can repair files from two halves of them, but I know Windows will just 'lose' files if a cut and paste operation gets ended abruptly, it's happened to me on less important files before many times. Good luck to you. The linked file recovery program is the only free one I've found that has the best success rate of finding deleted files (assuming the drive was writing the data as it was receiving it, if some data was in the drives buffer, those bits will be lost). Most drives will buffer the data then write it once the buffer is full to make writes faster, most buffers are either 32 or 64MB.
As far as getting the drive working without a reformat, try and recover the bits first that are 'corrupted', then try running a filesystem check on the drive to repair the file table. Worse case scenario is you'll have to reformat it, if there are any files on there that aren't backed up, the linked recovery program should be able to recover them.
Honestamente, sobre o uTorrent, há um sério problema. É o único que ainda roda mais de 2500 torrents utilizando poucos recursos e sem crashear . Infelizmente nunca ficou provado que esse minerador era automaticamente instalado. Desde a primeira versão 3 o utorrent passou a usar aquelas opções no instalador. Mas há algumas builds famosas do uTorrent que superam fortemente alguns clients.
uTorrent 2.2.1 é a mais limpa possível. A última a aparecer antes do uTorrent introduzir adwares no instalador. Perde algumas coisas, como ver a lista de peers e arquivos no webui.
Eu particularmente sempre uso a versão mais nova quando os trackers colocam na "lista branca". Sempre bom andar com o software atualizado.
Há duas formas de contornar os problemas dos adwares. Usando o Unchecky (o computador da sua vó agradece). A outra é baixar o executável do utorrent e colar direto na pasta C:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent Outra dicas são: Usar o Pimp My uTorrent pra remover as propagandas (o que ele faz é simplesmente desativar umas opçoes que dão pra fazer manualmente. Sempre ter o backup dessa pasta C:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent
Lá ficam gravados os settings, os torrents adicionados, etc. Sem contar que dá pra carregar em qualquer Windows essa pasta e instalar o utorrent colando o novo executável. Fica sempre portátil.
Bom, são 11 anos de experiência com torrent e uns bons +/- 9 anos com uTorrent e nunca tive problema com o ele.
Unchecky has saved me several times from this: https://unchecky.com
It automatically monitors installs and unchecks boxes that would result in unwanted extras being installed. It doesn't work all the time, but it's worth having (free) for the times it does!
App uninstallers aren't necessary to use (you can just drag the app to the trash), but I like to use them to remove leftover data files from apps when uninstalling. The best I've used is AppCleaner-- it's lightweight and does its job very well. Make sure to do a quick scan of the files it suggests to delete before deleting them.
For uninstalling apps, I would also recommend grabbing appcleaner to help with deleting those hidden library files. You can also set it to check automatically whenever you move something from the applications folder to the trash.
You need AppCleaner this is the last app you'll ever need, no CleanMyMac bullshit, just drag the app you wanna delete to the AppCleaner window, it will find all related files and give you the option to remove them. no catch no nothing. just a good piece of software that does its job!. honestly fuck CleanMyMac. i tried it once and it was a pain in the ass to even try. deleting the actual app. sorry im pissed hahaha.
In general use AppCleaner, its what I recommend all my customers. Just dragging an application to trash doesn't delete temporary files, or menu icons sometimes, etc.
Its free, pick an app, you will be surprised at how many files most apps create that the Mac will not delete.
Unchecky is a great little utility that unchecks the extra things a lot of installers come with. Also consider putting an adblocker on her browser. Be careful with CC Cleaner. I accidentally cleared the "recent files" lists for someone and they weren't happy about that.
Eh. They've got Google ads on the site, and I doubt it requires much upkeep aside from keeping the site up and watching the bug reports for tips on new installers to tinker with if the program doesn't auto-detect 'offers' properly. Their privacy policy is pretty legit, too; anonymous info used only to improve the program and never sold to third parties.
Using CCleaner to remove software is like letting snakes in to your house to kill a rat infestation.
I would recommend using software like bcuninstaller. (It's free, Open source and doesn't steal your data)
woah woah woah, don't delete your appdata folder. This simply looks like a failing installation or registration with .Net. Just go into Programs & features, uninstall every .Net instance, then reboot and see if it does it again. You can also compare all your installed and running apps on https://www.shouldiremoveit.com/, if you want to look for troublemakers.
I use AppCleaner to fully uninstall Mac Apps. But in your case you can probably just use the uninstaller provided by the app makers of the sound drivers themself
It is the best allround software when you want to get more information about installed programs, or if a program's uninstaller is not letting you uninstall the program, it's got some other features as well. Highly recommended to people who need such a software. I don't know why it's being downvoted.
This is the official website: https://www.bcuninstaller.com/
There's also a version that you don't have to install. ^^
If you still have space, try AppCleaner which has a list of all your installed apps and will delete all of the files of the selected software (including Library and all these remainders). It’s small in size and personally most efficient than the drag to the bin native system for the above mentioned reason.
After that, empty your bin and everybody laughing 👍🏼
https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
P.S. an extra layer of security would be setting a password on your Mac or lock Steam somehow for your little brother 😜
If their systems don't already have it, get Unchecky, which helps a bit. Otherwise adblocking is a big deal. If you can't trust them to stick with a browser with a good adblocking extension set up, you can still do it at the DNS level (or both); set up a piHole for them, or a pfSense system/gateway with an appropriate blacklist subscription.
I strongly, strongly recommend installing Unchecky on every family members' PC (and yours too). It unticks all those "Install VirusToolbar and change my start webpage to www.totallynotamalware.srsly" bullshit automatically when you install stuff.
Have a look at this. Seems to be a similar issue.
Next time try using AppCleaner to uninstall any application. It will make sure all supporting files of that application are also deleted. It is a freeware too.
I always use AppCleaner to uninstall programs on my Mac. It goes through and scans your system for any other files/directories associated with a program and gives you the option to remove them also.
Personally I wouldn't bother with any cleaner type products for Mac, the only thing I would suggest is AppCleaner for removing applications. It's not necessary but clears up a bunch of the cruft that would be leftover if you just deleted the app yourself.
As for antivirus, if you are careful on the web and have Gatekeeper switched on I'd say you are about as safe as you need to be. If you do want to have some antivirus I'd probably go for something free like ClamAV or I think Sophos do a free version. Neither of these will offer realtime protection I don't think but you might fancy doing a period scan of your machine. You might want to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware too, it's free and worth doing a scan every so often if you feel like you might be at risk.
There's a long, long list of Samsung drives which are afflicted by the slow read bug. It occurs after 9-40 weeks, depending on the namometer production process. For example, a 21nm NAND package's performance decays over 40 weeks. A 19nm TLC NAND package decays after 9 weeks.
Most Ultrabooks use some kind of TLC-based mSATA or ePCI SSD. For example, the Dell XPS 13 has a Samsung PM851 drive. The Lenovo Yoga also has TLC. Unfortunately, Samsung Magician is not compatible with the OEM drives used in Ultrabooks. The only tool I've seen that restores performance is DiskFresh.
EDIT: Samsung's policy regarding this debacle was to claim the drives are OEM and therefore aren't covered under warranty.
I've heard that this tool doesn't fix anything until it detects data read speeds in the 250 MB/s ballpark. Which is absolutely unacceptable in a SSD of this calibar.
I'm not even going to bother with this "fix". Since Samsung botched the first one and then missed their March projection for the release of the second attempt, I've taken things into my own hands.
I run weekly HDTune benchmarks and save the results. Once I see read speeds trending downward below 400 MB/s, I run DiskFresh. It's not a fast program but it surprisingly has very little overhead so it can be run in the background during normal system use. It basically does the same thing that the first Samsung tool did - re-writes the data on the drive resulting in like-new performance. 450 MB/s reads across the whole drive.
Is this a bit of a hassle? Yeah, but it's better than enduring slow boots and load times in the long run. Does it accelerate wear on the drive? Yeah, but SSD's have such longevity that even it loses a year or two off of useful life I'll still be ready to upgrade well before it dies.
CNET is a very popular tech website, and it's indeed legit. They are rated safe by all antivirus as you can see here on VirusTotal.
I think you are mistaking malware (as in an actual virus, spyware, and such) with adware. Some softwares downloaded on websites such as CNET can contain adwares, but it is usually not harmful and easy to avoir by declining it upon installation.
To avoid problems when downloading softwares, you should always download directly from the editor's website when possible. Also Unchecky is a useful software that automatically decline the installation of such adware on installers, and it's free.
I install unchecky on all machines I come across because of this. It tries to remove/uncheck unwanted software offers for you and warns you if you are about to click the wrong option
One of the things I first install is AppCleaner incase something like this happens again or just when deleting apps. It removes any extra files/folders that may not be removed when you delete an app
That is true. The retina screen uses scaling. No mater what scale setting, the graphics will have to scale the interface. The only way to escape this is to turn off display scaling and use native resolution which is reaaaaal small. (I do this for huge screen real estate ) But to be honest, I doubt you would notice unless you were doing inteste graphics apps.
I do not think this is ever true. All apps put preference and temp files in system folders which will be left behind if you do that. I recommend using AppCleaner which will search for those files as well to delete them.
EDIT: To disable retina scaling, you can use Display Menu
If you can't afford to pay for bartender right now something i've done is used the trial then re-installed after four weeks. Once the trial is up just use "Appcleaner" to delete the app and the .plist file. Download it again and it should work fine.
There are two (temporary) fixes I know of. The one I mentioned above is what is referenced in the article, it was the first fix released by Samsung, that ended up only temporarily restoring performance, "Samsung SSD 840 EVO Performance Restoration Software" -
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/support/downloads.html
The second temporary fix would be essentially re-writing every bit of data on the drive (in-place), which in theory gets the performance back to original for a while. You can do this with a program like Disk Fresh -
http://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html
Both these are just bandaids, and don't fix the underlying issue that is causing the slowdowns. So, after running either you can expect performance to degrade again just as it has in the past.
Try unchecky should solve all your shovelware problems; it automatically unchecks and declines all offers to install shovelware (it also warns you if you click on something that may install shovelware).
Here is a 2 minute demo of unchecky so you can see what it does (just be warns, while it catches 99.9% of shovelware, there is that 0.01% that will slip through; overall though, it's pretty good)
This is terrible advice. Never intentionally install malware.
If you regularly get malware after installing software from KissAnime or EmuParadise then stop installing software from those sites. You can get free open source emulators such as mednafen or dolphin and there is no reason to install software if you're downloading anime.
If you happen to install malware having Unchecky installed might save you but it's not a substitute for not being an idiot and being careful what you install.
I would download and run AdwCleaner to remove all of the crapware installed by DaemonTools.
Unchecky might be worth installing too, to prevent it happening again (unless you switch to one of the alternatives like WinCDEmu or VirtualCloneDrive).
Just get the nice tool " geek uninstaller" its a Portable uninstaller ( and free ) which will clean all traces of all kinds of programs many programs leave trash behind ...
Maybe try Appcleaner to see if it can pick up the files you've missed when trying to completely get rid of it, hopefully it can then you can reinstall and select the correct drive.
I am partial to geek uninstaller. https://geekuninstaller.com/
There is aonther called revo uninstaller too I have heard good things about. Windows leaves it up to the program writiers making the programs to make uninstallers, but they usually leave behing a ton of garbage in my experience.
my DDG search found an English page, a lot of matches so I think he runs Ossia, for chinese cameras.
Ossia CMS Standard is comprised of the following executables which take 44.33 MB (46486528 bytes) on disk:
MonitorClient.exe (28.38 MB) AlarmServer.exe (163.00 KB) AuthenticationServer.exe (798.50 KB) ConfigServer.exe (3.61 MB) curl.exe (127.00 KB) IntelligentAnalysisServer.exe (168.50 KB) MediaTransferServer.exe (167.00 KB) mysql.exe (4.90 MB) mysqldump.exe (4.88 MB) ServerTrayMgr.exe (356.50 KB) ServerTrayUI.exe (496.50 KB) StorageServer.exe (177.50 KB) TVWallServer.exe (168.50 KB)
Yeah, unfortunately it sounds like your HDD is dead/dying. If you can plug it into another PC and read it, use Puran File Recovery orRoadkil's Unstoppable Copier to get as much off as you can!
This is what I used. Took a while for it to run, couple hours if I recall. From what I understand it rewrites your data on the ssd, although I may be misunderstanding it's function. It works at least. http://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html
I think it's legit, it seems that the ELPDCBM.exe is a button manager for EPSON document camera.
Files installed by Button Manager for EPSON Document Camera
ELPDCBM.exe (by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION) - Button Manager for EPSON Document Camera emxunit.dll Install_UvcCtrl.exe
https://www.shouldiremoveit.com/button-manager-for-epson-document-camera-112990-program.aspx
I'm not a huge fan of the interface, but it's like a complete enema for your computer. It will clean everything, including shit you've never heard of like shellbags, traces in USN Journal, Super/Evercookies, etc., along with thumbnails, old windows installations, history in other apps like photoshop, and the usual stuff like browser history, cache, recently used files and stuff like that.
The initial scan can take quite some time depending on the usual things, but each subsequent scan speeds it up, especially if you do it often enough.
In addition to no admin access, no matter what browser you use, make sure you have an adblocker.
Unchecky is still useful even if it has no admin access, programs can still install into users %Appdata%
The inbuilt anti virus is ok if she has no admin access.
I took a look at this last time it was posted, and it seems like it has to maintain a static list of software installers.
I couldn't find a comprehensive list of all the installers it works with. (I did read the changelog to get an idea, but the list of software listed there didn't seem terribly long)
Any Idea how it works?
If it's just detecting from a regularly updated list of installers, it would seem like a Sisyphean task to maintain, as the sheer volume of shit out there that tries to drive-by install stuff is an ever growing list.
Not that it couldn't get to a critical mass, but I was unable to easily find more information about the volume of stuff that it blocks.
I love the idea of it, though, and I hope it is either a more mature app than I intuit, or that it eventually become so.
Thanks for the post though.
If you don't need any specific Windows software, have you considered going for a Unix distribution instead?
> Keyboard shortcuts for Mac user hands (I can't get over feeling the Ctrl key is only for control characters)
I had the same problem when I had to use a Mac at work. AFAIK, there is no proper way to rebind them for every piece of software, except by editing the registry, which does sometime lead to unexpected results.
> Package management (like Homebrew on Mac)
Nope, or nothing that I am aware of. Closest thing i would suggest is Ninite, but it is not as complete. Should be enough for most standard users, not sure if it will fit your use-case.
> Cruft management (uninstalling apps, registry, #FML)
Check GeekUninstaller. Do not trust the built-in windows uninstaller, it does not clean registry, nor does it clean temporary and config files.
> A terminal that doesn't suck
Not the base terminal with Windows command line. I use Putty to connect locally to WSL, which does work without hogging tons of CPU, but looking for alternatives, as I had to do lots of tweaking to get the older version on WSL to run headless. I do remember WSL patch-notes saying that had been corrected, but i'm too lazy to upgrade to the current version.
> Docker
Used it for work, was not too much of a pain to setup, ran decently.
It can, and typically will if you use Windows' native uninstaller. When you uninstall a program, it will typically leave behind stuff in places that were not in the installation folder, such as user settings files, registry entries, etc. Some of this is purposeful (for example, if you install the program again all your settings will still be there), but a lot of it is just laziness.
I personally like to use the free version of geek uninstaller to avoid exactly this. When you uninstall a program through this tool, it runs the uninstallation executable like normal, but then scans your folders and registry for any other files that the program left behind and deletes those as well. You can also use it to easily "force" an uninstall of a program that is giving you a hard time otherwise.
So, the simple answer is that you can go to the Applications folder in Finder to see them. If you just see a bunch of icons, there’s a button that will show you the list view. Here’s mine:
https://i.imgur.com/Gb1r6EA.png
The more complicated answer is that applications will often store data elsewhere. For example, according to that list, Logic Pro only uses 1.97 GB. In reality, there’s maybe 70 GB of other files that it stores in /Library/Application Support.
That’s kind of an outlier, though. Most of the time, apps won’t store a ton of data elsewhere. If you want to check, you can get an uninstaller utility like AppCleaner—even if you don’t go through with the uninstall, they can help you identify the relevant locations where all the files are.
You can get an amazing uninstaller called 'App Cleaner' (https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/). It's free and will clean up those extra files that apps leave behind.
It's a specific app and is literally called AppCleaner: https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
Basically instead of just deleting the .app file in your Applications folder, you open this app and drag the .app file to AppCleaner's window and it will search for all the misc files and folders that relate to the .app file.
and if you have OCD like me about apps leaving files after uninstalling them checkout this app https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ it shows what files are left over when u drag and drop app into it
Not really! Mac cleaners are unnecessary for a Mac, they cause more problems that they solve, if you want to uninstall apps and their traces use AppCleaner, a free and reliable app.
You can try Malwarebytes free mode. It’s pretty effective at getting rid of malware.
Also, AppCleaner is good for rooting out extra crap from regular applications.
Get AppCleaner and go to your Application folder, find the files related to flash, booking.com and others, if applicable and drag and drop them into the window of AppCleaner.
AppCleaner is handy, no-crap-/scamware tool that looks for "related" files of those .app files you dragged onto it and will help your remove them from other "system folders", such as ~/Library/Application Support/ etc.
Where did you get the Flash from in the first place? If it was a .pkg with an executable installer, which you might have given permission to write files to your system, the actual files might be scattered.
Since moving to OS X/macOS I entirely stopped using third party download sites, such as cnet, macupdate or alike. If I want an app I check the Mac AppStore first. If it's not available there I'll check the developer website and verify by a quick google search that it actually is a legit app to use or if it's some small app/utility from an indie dev, without a business model attached, I'll check the GitHub Release page. Everything else is outof question for me.
You’ll need to try to find an earlier installer if you want to go back to a previous version, there’s no way to do a straight rollback.
We’re having issues with several office installations after the recent update. I’ve had success doing a full uninstall then installing from scratch. I’m using App Cleaner to remove the offending application and then just reinstall that one. I don’t know if you have access to single app installers but if you don’t removing the entire suite works.
Just make sure you get all the little preference files in the User library, etc. It’s probably one of those that’s causing the issues (so far I’ve had problems with Outlook and Word on 16.14.1) but I haven’t had time to track it down. I’ll try to remember to post back here if I find a more targeted fix.
How did you remove the apps? Did you just drag it from the Applications folder into the trash and then empty the trash? Because if so, that doesn’t get rid of all the files. There are still many things left behind in your Libraries folder and Application Support folder, among others.
Use this to remove all related files when trying to get rid of an app.
My first step would be to completely remove and reinstall Office 2016. A lot of Mac software leaves behind a few configuration files that is not destroyed when you move the app to the trash. Microsoft software particularly leaves behind loads of crap in several non-standard places.
I use appcleaner to uninstall software. I can't remember if this catches everything for Office; be sure to double check if ~/Documents/{Microsoft,Microsoft\ User\ Data/} still exist.
Also, crosspost your issue to /r/MacSysadmin they probably have more insight.
I guess I could have looked, it's right there on the page
> System Requirements
> Windows XP, Vista, or 7
> 512 MB RAM
> 1 Ghz or faster processor
> Intel Mac, OS X version 10.7 (Lion), or later.
> Two-button mouse strongly recommended
> 1GB HD space (recommended)
> Internet connection (broadband recommended)
Edits: trying to format.
Another edit: have you tried anything as of yet like deleting and re-downloading the installer? Preferably use something like AppCleaner to make sure there's no trace of it left before reinstalling.
I just had a customer come in yesterday complaining of the same thing. Turns out she installed xQuartz and it messed with some system file or something. At least that's my best guess. First I used Macs Fan Control to monitor the temp of the computer. http://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control Then Console to see if the system was getting stuck trying to load any files. Turns out there was a file it kept trying to load up. So from there I removed xQuartz using App Cleaner. https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ Then had her reinstall the system from the recovery partition. Apparently after reinstalling it fixed the heat issue. Deleting the App itself is usually useless unless you go out and remove the system files it creates as well. That's what AppCleaner will do for you.
Good luck!
quick edit: It's not that xQuartz explicitly messed up her machine. Turns out she downloaded too new of a version for her system. Make sure you're using the right version of xQuartz for whatever version of OS X you've got.
You can use BCUninstaller. Here . It removes pretty much every single file of that game when you select it, it will recognize that you don't have the game file and remove the others too!
I use this program on a fresh install of windows to remove all the bullshit more rapidly. Lets you do it all at once, minimal restarts. It's free.
dont download the executable just providing you the link for you to see some of the executables and where to look in the folders to look for the remnants
You can use this to get the most out of your PC for gaming. It comes bundled with a load of tools as well but the Pc gaming tool completely removes elements of your PC not used for gaming to boost your FPS. Ive seen personally and average of around 10fps increase in most games when using the gaming PC profile :)
Buy a new SSD.
Run software which regularly refreshes data on your SSD so that nothing is more than a couple months old.
The issue is that after data is written to the flash memory cells in the SSD, the voltage of those cells slowly drops over time. After several months, the voltage has dropped enough that the drive has problems reading the data back, and it goes into long read-error-retry loops until finally after a dozen or more attempts to re-read it gets lucky and reads the data correctly. All those retry loops slows down the performance of the drive drastically.
Refreshing the data by re-writing it resets the voltage to high enough levels that the drive has no problems reading it on the first try.
Since we don't know if this is actually the problem your drive is experiencing, the easiest thing to do is to test if refreshing it restores performance to like when the drive was new. Try running this program to re-write every "sector" on your SSD. http://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html
If performance improves, then yes you are suffering from the issue. And you can just run DiskFresh again every couple months to prevent the problem from recurring. No need to replace the drive.
If performance does not improve, then you are experiencing a different problem and you can ignore everything I've written. You should probably read through the following link to see if 840 (non-EVO, non-Pro) owners experiencing the problem have come up with other ways to fix it.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1519058/the-we-want-our-840-non-evo-ssd-fixed-also
You can use disk fresh. I used it and it did work on getting the SSD back to normal speed. What it basically does is go through the whole SSD and then refresh all the files as if they were used recently. Gets around the bug as it's an old data issue.
Still bad on Samsungs side but I used this diskfresh when I got sick of waiting. You still need to use it every 30 days though as the bug still comes back. Just thought I would suggest this as it is an alternative.
Unfortunately there is no restoration tool for the non-evo 840, even though Samsung know it affects that drive also. The good news is there's some freeware called DiskFresh that you can run every few months that will restore performance.
If you mean Puran, it is here. If you mean the file itself, I don't know for sure. It'd be found in the scan and could be named by its memory position or by the old file name you saved it. You'd basically have to sort by file type and then open up all the deleted word docs until you find it.
In your situation I would uninstall any HP programs that didn't look essential, possibly doing google searches to help be sure if a program is safe to uninstall, if I had any doubt. Uninstalling things like photo managers shouldn't break anything.
IMHO if you follow this advice the chance of anything bad happening is very slim, and the chance of anything bad that isn't easily fixable happening is pretty much zero.
I wouldn't say I'm an expert though, so please take what I said with a grain of salt.
Edit: possibly useful link
Hey, thank you. This is the first award I've ever got, you've made my day.
If it somehow changes back to some other Home Page or Search Engine you didn't set yourself, try downloading Malwarebytes to scan your PC for malware that could have been trying to hijack your Search Engine and Homepage. Malwarebytes is the most widely recommend malware removal tool recommend here on Reddit.
I'd also recommend Unchecky , it automatically unchecks "I'd also like to install this Sponsored software" when you're installing new programs. Some of the sponsored software could be Search Engine & Homepage Hijackers. Though Unchecky probably won't catch everything so you should always pay attention when installing new software.
There's also unchecky but I haven't tried it myself.
Edit: just to clarify I don't think that's the issue here - it doesn't matter how many boxes you untick if you click on bad stuff and run as administrator.
ok i think i know what the issue was and it seems like nvidia drivers had no or a very little to do with this.
it seems like this little tool called unchecky https://unchecky.com/ that automatically unchecks those "you definitely and forever want to set yahoo as your homepage and default search engine, in all of your browsers" type things from installers.
it had turned on the accessibility features in firefox, and for some reason that is what caused this.
i will now try to turn that unchecky back on and restart firefox to see if 1080p 60fps videos are broken again.
i will report back soon.
I'd let MalwareBytes fix because it seems like a few bad things are going on the computer.
>RiskWare.BitCoinMiner, C:\USERS\HAGAZPACHO\APPDATA\ROAMING\GAMEMACHINE\MINERS\EWBF\GAME_MACHINE_MINER.EXE, No Action By User, [919], [467508],1.0.5745
>Trojan.BitCoinMiner, C:\USERS\HAGAZPACHO\APPDATA\ROAMING\GAMEMACHINE\MINERS\NHEQCPU\GAME_MACHINE_MINER.EXE, No Action By User, [526], [491732],1.0.5745
You got bitcoin miners aswell.
>PUP.Optional.GameHack, C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\CHEAT ENGINE 6.8\STANDALONEPHASE1.DAT, No Action By User, [8021], [393793],1.0.5745
Cheat Engine one is fine.
>ProxyGate
Uninstall/Let Malwarebytes do its thing against that and install Proxifier if you want to use proxies.
>Reimage
Probably should delete that aswell.
I'd also recommend installing Unchecky.
Use Unchecky, this nice little program disables all the little checkboxes with additional software for you.
NOTE: Some installers might still have some checked since Unchecky isn't able to unceck absolutely everything but for the most part it works. So just keep an eye out on that.
Decided to look up Lavasoft Web Companion. Seems to be a third-party adware program that gets bundled with installers. You might wanna run a virus scan.
While you're at it, you might wanna check out (no pun intended) Unchecky. It filters out unwanted crapware such as Lavasoft that gets bundled with installers.
It's shitty since I use CDBurnerXP and it also comes with Opencandy. What I did was just download the portable version of both programs, so it's ready to run out of the box, portable so you can throw it on a flash drive, and you don't have to install it and risk installing bullshit.
Also I would recommend you download Unchecky, which will automatically deselect bloat, PUPs and other bullshit if you are a person who likes to click next and not read when installing software (which is a bad thing, but whatever). https://unchecky.com/
It's probably the most useful application I have closely followed by unchecky which, unchecks boxes in programs (maybe websites) that are considered junk programs or anything else malicious. Seriously, check it out. I'd list all the programs I've found to be really useful but that'd take ages.
Goodnight :)
Always use custom>uncheck everything or just use Unchecky. But you can block domains in uBlock. Try adding "* yahoo.com * block" as a custom rule.
Edit: Are people still using uTorrent? qBittorent and Deluge exist...
Unchecky As the IT person for everyone i know I always install this program. It automatically unchecks the scammy boxes for tool bars and extra programs during install. Its a good idea to read the installation prompts but a lot of people have pop up blindness and just click ok on whatever.
A research conducted by Google last year found that most of the complaints are regarding adware/crapware that people accidentally download on their machines. All antivirus products are terrible at detecting these bundled adware. The best "antivirus" in this case would be an ad blocking software like "uBlock Origin" to block ads, and unChecky to automatically reject bundled adware crap that might sneak in with your downloads.
The above combo will block most of the "viruses" that people get now a days.
As for traditional "exe" virus detecting engines, I recommend Emsisoft because they use two engines (one from BitDefender), and they don't spy on your internet activities. Most antivirus programs will send your browsing habits to the antivirus vendor. Emsisoft is one of few that doesn't do that.
Antivirus programs like Kaspersky and BitDefender (but not its engine itself within Emsisoft) are dangerous because they do MITM attack on your web traffic by replacing security certificates with their own certificate. This is dangerous and may cause some websites not to work.
Stay away from any antivirus that offers "web security plugins". If you can, uninstall the plugin. It's a security hazard for your computer. It increases the vulnerability surface and doesn't increase the security.
EDIT: Don't get obsessed with AV comparison results. There is no real life practical difference between 97% and 99% detection.
Run diagnostics on workstations once a year. I like to use HDSentinel for quick hard drive checks because I'm paranoid about drive failure. Update software. Install Unchecky and uBlock on computers that are Internet-facing. Inventory your systems like /u/Whataboutthatguy said, and recommend replacing any horribly old systems.
Get the free version of Geek Uninstaller
Open it > find Bitlord > right click and choose force removal > follow prompts and remove everything it finds.
It can be downloaded here: https://geekuninstaller.com/download
To add on:
- Spotlight can understand things like "am" as "activity monitor" or "ste" for "sublime text editor"
- Spotlight can do maths and conversions between measurements and currencies. Really quick and convenient. It has become my calculator now.
- AppCleaner link
- Mac optimizers are redundant. Waste of my money.
- Time Machine has saved my butt a few times, even without the back up disk attached due to some features in APFS (snapshots).
- Yes, avoid "cracked" software. Applies to computing, cause it's going to be very likely a virus and macs are definitely not immune to malware and viruses. Open source alternatives is a valid choice, but don't expect it to be free in price 100% of the time (i'll give it about 80% could be free in price).
- Remove stuff taking big space by going to the top left of the screen, clicking the apple logo, "About my mac", storage, and manage. Opens "System Information" app but for storage management. Check the "File browser" of the "Documents" section for finding big files in your home folder (usually applies if you deal with big files).
If you use it for cleaning apps only maybe you should try https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/. It’s free and from my experience found more files than CMMX. Also, lots of people recommend it lol so here I am spreading the word as well :)
have a solution on mac
download appcleaner https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
open it and drag roblox studio in it and click remove. after that completely empty the bin. After that restart your mac and tadaaa file:///Users/andytran/Desktop/Screenshot%202021-09-30%20at%2020.11.42.png
The developer should be providing a proper uninstaller. A lot of them do but it’s definitely not as common as it should be. The rest can be manually cleaned up or there’s many different softwares that can automate it. App Cleaner is a good one https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
First up have you removed any extensions that might be causing it?
If so, I would probably reset safari and see if that fixes it. If you uncheck Safari in your Mac's iCloud settings, then use something like AppCleaner to find all the preferences that are linked to safari, it will reset the app. Because it's a system app, App Cleaner won't remove the actual Safari app itself, just the settings and preferences. Then you can reopen it and see if that works!
Get AppCleaner.
https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
In macOS, the app icon is actually a folder, that contains all the necessary executables and resources for the application to run. You can right-click on an app and choose "Show Package Contents..." to peek the files inside. So drag that icon to trash is effectively uninstalling it.
However, an app could generated extra files durning its running sessions, such as user configurations, downloaded clipart / templates / plugins, etc, etc. All these files are scattered inside the "Library" folder under your user home, and won't be deleted automatically.
These flies are non-functional since the original app is gone, but it still occupies disk space. Apps like AppCleaner are designed to hunt down such files and delete them for good.
I've played League on Macs for as long as there's been a Mac version. The main thing to consider is that LoL is both a CPU hog and a memory hog. I have one of the latest Macbook Pros and League is the only application that spins my fans up. For comparison, my day job includes working with numerous virtual machines which is far from being a light workload.
With this in mind, before launching League, open Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app). Check how much free memory you have and what your resting CPU load is. If you don't have many free resources before launching the game, you can be sure your system will have a stroke when you open League. Quit applications that you're not using to give it some more welly. Try turning the game settings down to the lowest possible settings and see if that helps.
If that doesn't fix your problem, a good start is to remove League completely (use https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/), and then reinstall. For good measure, try scanning your system for malware with MBAM (https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac-download/).
With all of the above in mind, it's always handy to remember that the macOS version of the game is always a second-class citizen. Some patches simply don't work well and then you have to report it to Rito and pray to /u/CaptainFlowers22 before sleep every evening.
If Malwarebytes doesn't find anything you make have some luck using AppCleaner to uninstall it along with any other files. You should also have a look at your login items and see what is running at startup. It may or may not be in there but that's also a decent first thing to try.
System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Startup Items. Remove anything lingering from here.
Most software can just be deleted from Applications to trash, for some few apps that litter files all over, you can use AppCleaner which is free. Just drag the app to it and it will find all the other lingering files that usually don’t hurt.
There are other options:
- It's a Steam game, so why not uninstall it via Steam?
- Locate the app and delete it via Finder.
- Locate the app and delete it via Terminal, as mentioned in another post.
- Uninstall it using AppCleaner (also mentioned in another post).
Using potentially doggy software wouldn't be my starting choice. In this case it doesn't strike me as a even remotely necessary - CleanMyMac X doesn't have any uninstall "magic" that couldn't be achieved with the above mentioned options, most which don't require the download of additional software.
Most of the time it's enough, but I use an app called AppCleaner when I want to get rid of every single file that the apps used. It's a free download.
macOS is pretty good at maintaining the systems cleanliness.
As a good “house keeping” I would run something like the Mac app “Onyx” to clean and maintain the system. I’ve seen it make a huge difference in performance and also when deleting an app using the Mac app “App cleaner” to get rid of all the relevant files with the app
That said I think the time commitment to do a fresh install versus a clone may be the same so the best use of time would be to just clone the drive either way.
https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
You don't really need that software...Onyx and appcleaner will do the same.
They are both free and Onyx is open source, not sure about the second
If you found it in System Information under Software->Applications, you can select it there to display details including the location of the file.
I use the free AppCleaner to remove applications and their related files. I've never had any problems with it.
If you’re worried about malware, you could just install MalwareBytes. You can use it indefinitely in free mode to run passive scans whenever you think something is amiss.
Also freemacsoft’s AppCleaner is really the best way to get rid of all the supporting files that something like WhatsApp dumps on your hard drive. It’s my go to for removing pretty much any Mac applications at this point. Just drag the offending app icon over its window and it finds all the supporting crap and lists what it will delete if you choose to do so.
Really hard to help without know what exactly you are trying to open but ill give it a shot. Did the program recently do an update? Or did you change some settings five days ago that may affect this program? (install a javascript or flash or something that this game needs)
I would first look in activity monitor and make sure the program and any associated processors are shut down. Then do a computer restart. If that does not work, you may have to delete the app and reinstall it. I would use something like AppCleaner to remove everything. You will lose any saved progress this way but it will be a fresh install of the program. If that does not work not sure what else.
Did you restart the client when it forgot they existed?
When you close Steam it writes the current internal configuration & other data back to disk, across multiple files. If the client is force closed or if you shut down your PC while it's still working on this it can cause it to corrupt some data and on the next launch it may "crash" and then restart itself quickly, or as you've found it can even completely forget/delete some data. Often it's only temporary forgotten and a restart of the client fixes it, but it can and will delete corrupt files or replace them with a fresh default copy if it's local-only or your latest cloud copy if it's shared.
Also, if the game installation data still exists in the Steam Library Folder where you installed it (inside /steamapps/common) then you should still be able to discover existing files on reinstall, but try restarting the client before you do that again. There may be encrypted data that has is corrupt or missing an encryption key or it could be missing your licenses for the games or the necessary information about the games that's stored locally could be corrupted, etc, etc; restarting client should help this, but the client itself could also be corrupt from updates and require reinstalling.
If you do reinstall the client, do it fully by following Steam's directions for Windows, or use AppCleaner on Mac. On Linux IDK what to use or where any extra files would be, but if you're using that as a daily driver you're far smarter than me and I believe that you can find them. On all systems you can move the default steamapps folder out so that it is does not remove your installed apps when you uninstall the client, but you will lose most of your current settings for the client, non-Steam apps, and there's a small chance you may lose your categories but not likely as they are in a Cloud-synched file.
Bit late here...
The system will remember the size and placement of the last window you closed. So when you close the last Safari window that spans the whole screen, a new window will have that size too.
Traditionally the Mac always fits windows to the content. Like small utilities don't need to be maximized. But document windows will span from top to bottom, but leave the strip on the right side. This way you can quickly switch between open apps.
That's just different than on Windows, where you instantly hit the maximize button on everything, then use the task bar or shortcuts for switching.
Yeah, like 99.99% of apps don't really get "installed". They don't need to place files all over your system to be able to run. There's also no things like the registry or the WinSXS folder full of DLLs that could slow you down. Mac apps still save things like settings files or caches in your Library folder. To see this folder, switch to Finder, click the Go To... menu, then press the Option (Alt) key. A link to the Library will appear. It's normally hidden. Apps leave behind some files when you remove them. But these are rather small. But here's a tool that will allow you to completely remove everything an app leaves behind: https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
A Windows .exe is big binary file that contains everything. Mac apps (UNIX and Linux apps in general) come as packages. That's a folder marked as executable. It contains the actual binary code and many support files like graphics and stuff. You can right-click on an app and choose 'Browse package contents' to see what's going on.
Yeah, same issue here for both normal FF and FF Dev.Ed. Made me switch to Chrome for work, which actually sucks, but I couldn't solve the problem otherwise.
EDIT (2018-05-28): I managed to fix the problem by completely wiping every trace of Firefox from my machine (using AppCleaner) and did a clean reinstall of FF Developer Edition and thus far the problem seems to be solved.
I think Adobe CC apps didn't work because licensing info is encrypted in some cached files that will be created on app launch.
Agree about using AppCleaner. Get it here: https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/, drop the app onto the window, then copy everything it finds over.