8 Windows 10 programs that should remove Now
Vindovs / / December 19, 2019
Open the "Add or Remove Programs» Windows 10, and you will surely see there something from this list. At best, these applications you do not need. In the worst - they not only take up space, but also add vulnerabilities. Remove them without hesitation.
1. Flash Player and other outdated technologies
Once the web pages are required plugins like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, or the Java, to play video or display a variety of applets. Now that most modern sites switched to the HTML5, these pieces no longer needed. All the more so in Flash or Silverlight consistently found gaps in security.
Adobe plans to completely stop supporting Flash 2020. Year longer the Silverlight support. And the Java, could be, and was a disruptive technology at the time of release in 1995, but since then a lot has changed.
So remove Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Silverlight and Java. They are no longer needed.
Alternative: not required. Now, most sites perfectly show videos without third-party plug-ins.
2. "Amigo" and other junkware-applications
If you install many programs and attentively study what they offer set in the appendage, you will find yourself in a lot of uninvited guests.
First of all, it is the panel and browser extensions. «Спутник@Mail.ru», «Yandex. Elements "panel from Yahoo, Bing... All these gizmos not only clutter the interface, but also strive to replace your home page and default search engine.
They also include "Amigo», «Защитник@Mail.ru» and other programs. Slip a user - a crime. Wash everything to the devil, and continue to watch closely what you are trying to cram installers.
Alternative: normal browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Vivaldi. Download applications from trusted sources and do not let installing unwanted software. Unchecky It will help you with this.
3. CSleaner cleaners and other systems
Many do not represent life without programs like CCleaner or IObit Advanced SystemCare. But they do not do anything that is not able to built-in "Disk Cleanup» Windows 10. In addition, many cleaners, tweakers and optimizers settle in the system tray and selecting system resources.
however you need every few days to clean browser cookies? But removing the "extra" keys from the registry, you may well harm the system. Yes, CCleaner can help remove some of the programs, which will not get rid of Windows tools, but without it is possible to do. The same applies to the rest of the optimizer.
Alternative: standard tools of the system. If you want to free up space, use the "Disk Cleanup» Windows. If you want to defragment the disk, run "Disk Defragmenter." No need to once again climb into the registry and remove keys from there with obscure names. The system knows better what she wanted.
4. Pre-installed software
Whatever laptop you may have purchased - HP, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, - you will find in it a set of pre-installed software from the manufacturer, the benefits of which no. For example, on my HP laptop revealed HP Lounge, HP 3D DriveGuard, CyberLink YouCam, HP Support Assistant and HP Panel for Windows 10 taskbar.
All of these applications are designed to update something and from something to protect, but in practice only consume system resources and take up space. Remove the preloaded software.
Alternative: not required. Windows 10 has the ability to install updates and drivers.
5. Metro-app Windows 10
Microsoft diligently imposes on us a number of so-called Metro-applications. This 3D Builder, Xbox, «Maps", "Weather", the OneNote, "News", "Sports", "Finance", "Mail" ...
In Metro-applications is very limited functionality and unique interface. Maybe on a tablet running Windows 10, and they are appropriate, but on a laptop or desktop computer look just superfluous. You can easily find them a suitable replacement. Fortunately, they may well be remove.
Alternative: read the news more convenient in your browser or RSS-client, check your mail - in Gmail or Thunderbird. A 3D Builder and Xbox all useless if you do not have of 3D-printers or console.
6. Edge and Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 11 - latest version of the "legendary" browser. They have long been no one uses, however Microsoft leaves it in Windows 10.
To disable Internet Explorer (remove it completely fails), type in the search for "Enabling and Disabling Components Windows », found open and deselect Internet Explorer 11.
As for the Edge, it certainly looks like a normal browser... but only on the background of Internet Explorer. Microsoft is trying to make the Edge genuinely popular, but so far it is from her not really work. As in many new Microsoft applications, the interface is more suited Edge plates than a conventional PC. So that it too can be removed. However, as is the case with pre-Metro-applications, it will require some extra movements.
Alternative: a lot of them. Most people use Internet Explorer and Edge just to go to the sites Chrome, Firefox, or Opera, to install a decent browser. Proceed and you so.
7. Skype Click to Call
Quite a useless browser extension that is installed with Skype. It allows you to call the phone numbers that appear on web pages. Often Skype Click to Call takes for the phone numbers of sets of figures, which are not numbered. Delete it, Skype is not hurt.
Alternative: most likely, it is not required. And how often do you call Skype to landlines?
8. Windows Media Player and QuickTime
You may use a standard player from Microsoft? There are many much more convenient and functional alternatives. Disable Windows Media Player, you can through the "Enabling and Disabling the Windows Components".
QuickTime can install on your computer, if you're using iTunes for Windows, but iTunes is no longer in need of QuickTime for their work. QuickTime Support for Windows Apple discontinued in 2016. All media formats supported by the QuickTime, you can easily open third-party player if necessary.
Alternative: other players to play audio and video, such as AIMP, foobar, KMPlayer and VLC. They support more file formats, and interface them nicer.
What kind of applications in the "hit list" with you?
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