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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Ok - while I've got y'all helping me and before the topic changes again -- are any of these items readily removable from the startup list? I did delete the now obsolete trial antivirus software, since it was asking for money. "Avast" is on there now. Here are the screens that Ccleaner shows. [ Are these readable?? They're pretty dreadful on my screen. I can try again ... This is an iphone pic rather than a screen grab on the PC, which I no longer know how to do, on a PC.]
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Looking at the list (which required me to do Save Image As and open them in a viewer to read them)
Picture one:
Cleaner Monitoring looks like the Pro resident version. I use the freeware version and do on demand scanning. It can come out of startup.
AvastUI is likely the AV component. Leave it. (I use MS's built-in on Win10, and don't
run A?V elsewhere.)
I'd leave the HP stuff.
StartCCC is the Catalyst Control Center app for the AMD-ATI graphics card. It gives you a GUI to adjust graphics card parameters. It is
not the actual graphics driver - just an interface to it. I have an AMD-ATI graphics card in the desktop. Win10 said CCC was incompatible with it when I upgraded, but it was still there and apparently worked. I never actually used it to fiddle with the card, so I removed it from Add/Remove Programs.
Picture 2:
CCleaner SkipUAC also looks like a Pro version component. I have no idea what the Sweet Labs app platform is, and I'd want to find out. The other stuff should probably stay.
Picture 3:
I am mystified at what 7-zip is doing in Startup. I have it here as my standard archive utility, and it's associated as the app to open all that archive types it understands. (It replaces Windows built-in Zip folder functionality). But it's not a startup app and has no reason to be.
I also note entries for
both Avast and McAfee. I'll guess that Avast is the resident A/V, so what is the McAfee entry for? In general, you don't want to run more than one Z/V app at the same time. They tend to get in each other's way and step on each other's toes.
Malware Bytes also seems to have a resident component. This is another Pro feature. (I run the freeware version once in a while as on-demand scanning, but haven't configured it to be resident. If you installed it, it looks like you selected the "Try Pro features for 30 days free" option in the install. If you ran it and deleted what it found, it can go away using the standard Windows Add/Remove Programs facility.
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Dennis