Earlier this week I removed both Ad-Aware and TeaTimer from my Startup list with CCleaner, but the icon for Ad-Aware keeps showing up in my system tray. Also, Process Explorer shows both a service app and a tray app as being active for Ad-Aware.
Before I un-install Ad-Aware with CCleaner, I was wondering if that will totally get rid of it, or whether some kind of boot-up error might happen.
Is this to be expected; to see an application still showing up in the tray and in Process Explorer after being removed from Startup by CCleaner?
I had the same issue with Ad-Aware myself... I chose to uninstall it because they continue to bloat the program... I am now using Windows Defender for real time spyware/adware protection and SuperAntiSpyware for the occasional weekly scans. Removing Ad-Aware with CCleaner should not cause any boot time errors.
Just an addon to Keiths advice, open Taskmanager "Ctrl-Alt-Del", and make sure no AdAware services are running before you uninstall. It's looks like there's probably something running from what you say.
If they are, select them and "End Task". Or you may be able to right click the Sys Tray icon and shut it down that way. I've never used that program, so I don't know what it has running.
The uninstaller should kill all processes and services associated with it but if in case it doesn't, you can kill them. If you are using Vista, task manager shows processes/services. But if you are using XP, you'll need a program like ProcessExplorer to see the services. There's usually services like adwatch, aawservice or something like that, etc...
In order to stop Ad-Aware from starting with Windows you'd have to set its service to either Manual, or Disabled. Of course the end all of stopping it is of course to completely uninstall it, if that's the case get a good replacement like MBAM which won't run at every system start and is only manually started in the free version.
In order to stop Ad-Aware from starting with Windows you'd have to set its service to either Manual, or Disabled. Of course the end all of stopping it is of course to completely uninstall it, if that's the case get a good replacement like MBAM which won't run at every system start and is only manually started in the free version.
MBAM is light years ahead of Ad-Aware and in the likes of Norton or McAfee for bloat but then whatever bloat's your float is up to you.
MBAM is light years ahead of Ad-Aware and in the likes of Norton or McAfee for bloat but then whatever bloat's your float is up to you.
I use MBAM myself now, since it's part of the Malware Removal requirements on the forums. The newest version when doing a Full Scans checks my whole system approximately 50% faster than the previous version, that's a serious performance increase for just one version.
Not a reply, but a question. I uninstalled Adaware awhile ago, but when I reboot I get an error message "startup cannot find C:/Program Files adaware etc. I can't find it in startup. Anyone know the startup entry? Thanks
is it listed in ccleaner's startup tool, next time please don't hijack a thread, instead start your own, and probably in this case in the computer section.