Trials, toolbars, and adware — these days, PCs come with all sorts of useless software. All this hidden “bloatware” impacts the performance of your entire system: it runs constantly in the background, consumes RAM and CPU resources, and demands your attention with annoying ads and notifications. Time to get rid of it.
Even though PC manufacturers have reduced the amount of preinstalled programs on their machines, there’s still a lot of room for improvement. Nowadays, many software companies and download portals add bloatware to their own downloads. As you’re installing the software you want, it’ll install additional programs, such as toolbars or trial versions of other programs.
Bloatware comes in many forms, and its impact on PC performance can vary from negligible to severe. It clog up your machine and consume valuable resources, evening causing 100% disk usage in Windows 10. It can also inundate your browser with ads and, worse, even spy on you or introduce other security risks. Bloatware has no right to be on anyone's PC. Thankfully, you can clean it out easily with AVG TuneUp's dedicated bloatware removal tool.
AVG TuneUp’s Software Cleanup scans your computer from top to bottom for bloatware and removes it, freeing up both space and resources.
AVG TuneUp rates all the apps on your computer for their usefulness via a combination of user scores and our in-house blacklist. Here’s how it works:
Head to Speed up and look for Junk Programs. Here’s your list of unneeded apps, rated from 0 (not rated) to useless (1 star) to useful (5 stars). More on that below.
Hint: If you’re not running it already, get the trial version of AVG TuneUp for your PC.
Found an app you don’t need? Click on Move to Trash. This quarantines the app so you can evaluate your user experience without it. If you find that you don’t miss it, you can get rid of it completely.
As you rate apps, you’ll help others make better decisions about the apps they need or don’t need. Your ratings also help our cloud-based recommendation engine learn more about which apps belong on our blacklists and whitelists.
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