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A brand new computer is usually loaded with a lot of software that you do not really need have. Often these trendsetters of games and trails that only a few days are valid or worthless multimedia software related to the brand of your PC. Moreover struggling there software on the machine during the installation of some programs. For all these software that you do not need, but who do take disk space, the term coined bloatware. Sometimes bloatware that is deeply integrated into the operating system so it is not easy to remove. It takes time and insight anyway to remove it. All that junk Decrap is a small tool that makes it easy and safe all the bloatware knew at HP, Toshiba, Asus and Dell computers.

Download the free program at the bottom of this article or the website www.decrap.org. Decrap works in several languages, including Dutch. You can indeed use the tool as a portable app from a USB stick. In the first window Decrap asks if you fancy a ride or you want to send yourself. The taxi ride means Decrap a system restore point, and then make and perform the cleaning. Automatically, without any user intervention, analysis Anyone taxi drivers blindly trusts can tick the automatic function. But I apologize to those of the professional association of taxi drivers, choose to keep all the control in your own hands and click the Next .

Then Decrap performs an initial scan. These files are identified that affect the performance of the computer. When I look at the results of this scan, thank heaven that I have not chosen. The ‘taxi ride’ Decrap puts a list of items for which it wants to eliminate, so as to make the PC. Again completely virgin blank The program aims example delete all the items in the meantime are on the desktop. In addition, a long list of startup programs that need to be changed. Then Decrap tabula rasa wants to make all third party software, including essential programs like Microsoft Office, Acrobat Reader, Mozilla Firefox, etc … Finally, there are Windows-related tools Decrap also wants to remove. Only the documents remain untouched. So take your good time to review this list carefully and check out what you absolutely want to retain.

As the results list is long, it is often faster by clearing the main group as Third Party Software Then you can place check marks in the third party software that you want to delete effectively. Decrap features a built-in filter. Would you for example have to do with ‘Adobe’, quickly find all the items you just type this brand in the results list. This will display a filter box in which you indicate whether the filter all matching or all non-matching items should show. That way you can quickly and very specifically the wheat from the chaff. Do you want to remove the filter again? Then click on the check mark for the word Filter . Check one last time the selection and click Next .

Before the program files starting to remove, it will propose to create a restore point. This allows you to System from your Control Panel always unforeseen changes cancel out via the function. Making the System Restore Point can take some time. In window 3 Decrap asks whether it is good that the checked items are automatically deleted and whether the register should be cleared automatically. Decrap wants to traces in the registry and leftovers from deleted files cleaning. In both cases, I myself choose Manual . Decrap shows step by step what elements are removed.

Choose your like me then you will need to confirm the uninstall. Each application that is zapped for manual cleaning, This is perhaps a little tedious, but it is safe. Finally you get a record of everything Decrap has cleaned up: the registry and applications. Click Next . A brief summary of how many files still appear Decrap has cleared and how much time it has taken to introduce this. Then close the program himself.