Ok... this ones got me a bit stumped and never had the issue before...
Trying to clean a lot of malware/unwanted programs from a laptop for someone I know (they don't know pc's) and I go and uninstall a program that isn't wanted. After a reboot I'm left with 10 programs left in the list (edit: add/remove in control panel not start menu) when before it was around 30, even things like office have vanished.
I've tried sfc /scannow, checked with revo uninstaller (even less showing strangely), rescanned with av/malwarebytes etc.
Did a google and it suggested looking for a 60+ character string in regedit, did this and nothing looked wrong.
Anything else I can try before resorting to a system restore or reinstall from scratch (ideally I don't want to have to do this)
Ta very
Trying to clean a lot of malware/unwanted programs from a laptop for someone I know (they don't know pc's) and I go and uninstall a program that isn't wanted. After a reboot I'm left with 10 programs left in the list (edit: add/remove in control panel not start menu) when before it was around 30, even things like office have vanished.
I've tried sfc /scannow, checked with revo uninstaller (even less showing strangely), rescanned with av/malwarebytes etc.
Did a google and it suggested looking for a 60+ character string in regedit, did this and nothing looked wrong.
Anything else I can try before resorting to a system restore or reinstall from scratch (ideally I don't want to have to do this)
Ta very
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