Dongle casing reboot ?

[RobDLG]

Then another hour to remove all the bloatware associated with that driver. Please. Can't I just install the driver?

Don't get me started!

Several years ago, I bought a brand-new Dell OptiPlex with Windows 10 Pro. I thought 32GB was large enough for the "C:\" drive, and I was WRONG. When the OEM installer was done, there were only a few GB left on the drive, and I couldn't find anything to remove--no bloatware, no "System Restore" points--nothing, that I could nuke to free up space. It was unusable.

Fortunately, that was an offline test install. I later installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and was able to use the ISO download and the product key from the MSDM firmware table to activate Windows 10 Pro in VirtualBox. I was actually surprised to see the Microsoft license explicitly permitted this.

 

[wtp]

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[saioke]

ADwCleaner has been my go-to for years. It's been able to detect and remove complete malware/rootkit/ransomware takeovers in my experience.