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True Dough

(20,603 posts) Tue Jan 8, 2019, 10:34 PM Jan 2019

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Pop-ups on new laptop

Hi all. I purchased an HP Pavilion laptop last week and I have everything set up. The only annoyance is recurring pop-up ads for DropBox and some Cloud storage, both of which I initially declined. I have no use for either.

Does anyone know a way to make the pop-up prompts to register for those services go away permanently?

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Pop-ups on new laptop (Original Post) True Dough Jan 2019 OP

Get both these: Decrapify & ADWCleaner populistdriven Jan 2019 #1

Fantastic! True Dough Jan 2019 #2

If it doesn't work there are manual ways to remove registry keys & system files populistdriven Jan 2019 #3

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populistdriven

(5,686 posts)

1. Get both these: Decrapify & ADWCleaner

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 11:38 PM

Jan 2019

https://www.pcdecrapifier.com/download/free

More uninstallers here
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/windows/uninstallers/

ADW Cleaner (use default settings)
https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

True Dough

(20,603 posts)

2. Fantastic!

Reply to populistdriven (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 11:59 PM

Jan 2019

Thanks much!

populistdriven

(5,686 posts)

3. If it doesn't work there are manual ways to remove registry keys & system files

Reply to True Dough (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 12:50 PM

Jan 2019

but don't try that on your own!

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