 So if you want to do an updated video here for how to clean up a PC, because Windows 10 is so popular we have Windows 10 on here and we had fun infecting it. Basically we clicked on all the things and got everything installed on it that is crap junk and everything else. Now you can see the CPU here, I pulled it up just sitting here without anything open not to mention these are popping up on the side. The CPU usage is pretty high on this, it's pretty steady high. I don't know what it's doing other than just it's got lots and lots of junk on it. So these are typical the computers that we see that come in here and with driver update plus driver booster and all these other crappy pieces of software boosts my PC that don't do anything but annoy you and slow your computer down. And actually they do have a business model they ask you for money. So we're going to show you how to clean it up by using some free tools from MereWaterbytes because MereWaterbytes has pretty much become the standard for removing crap and junk off computers. So to make it convenient and easy I'm going to find out the real browser because we also have the fake browsers that got loaded on here too. So we're going to start with Google Chrome and we're going to open up my website. We have all the tools listed on our website for doing the removal. Oh and because all the crap on here it's prompting me even when I open a browser which maybe some of you are thinking yeah that's what my computer does. Remove it keeps bugging me for that so go to Google remove it's good. We wanted to make it real so I'm not doctoring this at all this is all the crap that's on there. Lawrence Systems you can Google for us go here and go to our website and probably have my website does not have any pop-ups but because of all the crap on this computer I'm going to guess it's popping up DIY repairs and DIY junkware and man wear removal guide. All right and I have the tools listed in generally the order we like to use them in with Mbam being last and JRTVing first and you click this so we can download it. Oh look it's even got something the download manager wants to pop up. That's a problem so let's start download see what this does. Let's open the file. Oh it worked even though we have some crazy download manager that came with this. So this is going to run the GRT tool it runs fairly quick checking for updates it will automatically update if there's a new version and we're going to go ahead and let this run it's going to take a few minutes. It's going to start killing all the background things and all the junk installed in there. Wouldn't I stop talking I'm going to go ahead and like fast forward the video so you can just see that it takes a little while to run and I'm just going to let it do its thing here and fast forward it. It closed the browser for me and hopefully it's removing a lot of the junkware. Okay now the GRT is completed it gives you a list of all the crap it removed and fixed from here. Registry keys it fixed and things like that. All the places that the crap ware and junk ware decided to hide. So after that let's open up the website again and we're going to run C cleaner. And what C cleaner is going to do is clean up a lot of the temp files that are on here. You click analyze say yes run cleaner and what this does when you get to some of the later programs that do the more intense scans there's less temp files for them to scan through looking for junk. So it's kind of intermediate you said you could have done it first but GRT definitely helps knock down a lot of those pop-ups that keep things from running. Alright cleaning complete okay the next one is TDS killer just checks for root kits on here. Now this program may not find anything it's just another handy one to run to see if there's something in there that's like a root kit or something in the background. These programs sometimes help mask viruses and cause all kinds of other havoc on your computer. Good news zero threats found so we can just close that. ADW cleaner this is a handy little tool for cleanup this is actually a tool that is by malware bytes but it's just good for getting rid of some of the unwanted junkware. It's fast easy and auto updates. It doesn't offer any active protection so far none of the tools we have a really active protect tools these are all cleanup tools. Alright and what this does is it lists everything that it finds kind of grouped together files scheduled tasks like PC maintenance automation all this crap that got loaded specific keys in each browser and services that start for each one and they're automatically by default they're all selected so you just hit the clean it can confirms you want to clean everything and then it's gonna ask me to restart the computer. It's deleting the random folders and garbage and you notice how it's even disappearing some of the things that are running down here because it's stopping them. How long this will take of course is all dependent on the speed of your computer. It's just confirming let me know all the stuff that it downloaded we're gonna go ahead and hit okay okay again stuff that it deleted I'm sorry. Okay now the last tool we're gonna download here is the malware bytes cleanup this is definitely one of the better programs out there probably one of the best out there for doing cleanups. Mailwarebytes really is a solid tool for getting rid of things every version keeps getting better highly recommend when it's all done it'll install like a trial version of their security software definitely it's worth buying not that expensive and just a really great product good to support the company. Okay Mailwarebytes wants to turn on the protection it's installed we're gonna gonna open it up and run it check for updates which it kind of does automatically when it starts up and I went ahead and clicked it it's got to make sure even though we just loaded it it has a definition update that it'll do and then we're gonna click the scan it's applying the updates yep and we are gonna hit scan it's gonna find all kinds of things this does take a while to run it's a pretty intensive program my computer here's pretty fast so it's gonna go reasonably fast I'm so gonna fast forward the video a little bit here. Okay when Mailwarebytes is done it wants to restart to finish removal so we're gonna go ahead and restart it and we're actually gonna kick off Mailwarebytes again to see if anything was missed sometimes we do run it more than once to really try to get this cleaned up. Mailwarebytes wants to restart again this is normal because after it goes through it wants to restart delete these and restart again so it'll scan some more and find some more and we may have to after find some things delete and reboot again. Alright so Mailwarebytes is happy and which is exactly what we like to see so it doesn't find any more threats and it also removed lots of the software on here but not all of it some things may be software that and doesn't get flagged as junkware or just things you don't want and that's where you can go to the add or move programs and the quick shortcut to getting there is typing apwiz.cpl and it'll bring up right on there it's faster than looking through the control panel and from here you can kind of decide like Dashlane was popping up it's a password manager maybe you don't want it you can just go through and uninstall each of the things you don't want in here but you do have to be careful because sometimes drivers and things like that are installed through here if you're not sure err on the set of caution or maybe Google what each thing is because you don't want to uninstall anything that's critical to the computer now a couple other things that are on here is now we have multiple antiviruses and like the stupid download manager that was coming up some of these things you can click on there and go okay they're just things I don't need like Norton security Norton's a horrible program so I'm gonna go ahead and remove that the irony is we for a joke we put Norton on here we're gonna go ahead and remove it but it's funny Norton's on here and it just didn't do anything so people ask why we don't recommend Norton well this is why we managed to load all of this junk on here and screw this computer up now where bites was able to remove it but Norton ignored it and let us install it I think once while it did pop up and say like you shouldn't install this thing but you can click yes it doesn't do much of a job blocking stuff and like so many programs you just have to keep restarting for each one and start the process over the run the APPWZ.CPL bring up the control panel and remove those two the last thing we're gonna do is we can reset the browsers and it's not too hard to do we'll start with Google Chrome so you click over to the three little dots over here we're gonna go to settings and Chrome detected that some of the settings were corrupted by another program reset you can just hit reset all settings it wants to confirm this and that automatically resets Chrome everything back to default and now there's no more ads and all that popping up in Chrome it covered of all the extra stupid extensions that were installed so you can actually search again and not be annoyed by all the stuff in there reset Firefox in case you're a Firefox user so open up Firefox click the question mark open up the troubleshooting information and you just hit refresh Firefox and it cleans out all the junk that's in there as well okay Firefox is already set all right now so we want to open up edge here and clear out edge we're gonna go to the little three dots at the top go to settings choose what to clear and I'm just gonna go ahead and clear everything clear and this will clear out any of the data in there that was an edge basically reset it all back I highly recommend not using edge it's certainly not the best browser out there we notice it crashes and just in general has a lot of problems so this is our guide to how to clean up computers and get rid of some of the junkware and crapware that gets loaded that somehow got accidentally clicked on or came as an extra install for something else that you had on here hopefully this guy was used for you and thank you for watching