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.
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.
AdwCleaner is short on options, then. It's difficult to see or control exactly what it's going to do. And there's no real documentation, which all goes to make us feel just a little on the nervous side.
AdwCleaner 3.2
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