AdwCleaner is a compact and portable tool which can help you to remove toolbars, adware and similar browser-based pests.
The program's interface is, well, a little basic. Click "Search" and in a moment or two an in-depth report appears in Notepad, describing any issues you might have. Click "Delete" and AdwCleaner will try to delete everything, displaying another Notepad report on the details. And that's about it.
While this is undoubtedly very simple, our immediate concern is that there's no general way to tell AdwCleaner what you want to keep, and what should go. The only control comes in the Options dialog, where you can instruct AdwCleaner to ignore the Ask toolbar, or not to examine one or more browsers (the program supports IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera).
We clicked "Delete", and after confirming that yes, we really were sure, AdwCleaner went to work, closing all our programs, removing the various files and Registry keys, and rebooting our PC. You don't get much choice in any of this - there's no "reboot later" option - and, again, we didn't really feel in control. But when our system restarted, the unwanted extras had all disappeared, and that's clearly good news.
Download: AdwCleaner 3.0
The program's interface is, well, a little basic. Click "Search" and in a moment or two an in-depth report appears in Notepad, describing any issues you might have. Click "Delete" and AdwCleaner will try to delete everything, displaying another Notepad report on the details. And that's about it.
While this is undoubtedly very simple, our immediate concern is that there's no general way to tell AdwCleaner what you want to keep, and what should go. The only control comes in the Options dialog, where you can instruct AdwCleaner to ignore the Ask toolbar, or not to examine one or more browsers (the program supports IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera).
We clicked "Delete", and after confirming that yes, we really were sure, AdwCleaner went to work, closing all our programs, removing the various files and Registry keys, and rebooting our PC. You don't get much choice in any of this - there's no "reboot later" option - and, again, we didn't really feel in control. But when our system restarted, the unwanted extras had all disappeared, and that's clearly good news.
Download: AdwCleaner 3.0
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