Where no man (or woman!) has gone before....

I was there. Computer Hell! As a matter of a fact, I just recently left there and came back to a much more pleasant place--out of root files, executable files, paths, formats, uninstalls, installs, search and destroy, Crap Cleaners (that's the name of a real program), rebooting, file registries, tools, preferences, security breeches, potentially harmful files.....got it?

Yeah....been there.....ain't going back if I can keep from it.

OK, I admit causing the problem initially. To be honest, at this point in time, I can't remember why I even downloaded it, but I downloaded a program called PC MightyMax. ah, yes, now I remember. I couldn't open a file, so Windows suggested I update or something to that effect.

Well, up comes this program claiming they could crack any code, yada, yada, yada. I fell for it. I'm not that good at being able to tell the legit programs from the scammers, spammers, and the wham-bammers.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD PC MIGHTYMAX!

I have downloaded/installed a billion programs. Some of them have worked well, some--not so much. It has always (until now) been easy enough to uninstall a program. 

Oddly enough, not only was it NOT listed in the program files so I could quickly, and relatively painlessly choose it from a list and click "uninstall,"  but there was absolutely no trace of it anywhere except the red warning box that annoyingly popped up every 5 seconds or so.

And, when I right clicked on the pop-up, the only option offered was not to close the program altogether, rather to close the menu of the pop-up. Translation: "I'll go away for another 5 second or so. See you later, sucker!"

So, the Reader's Digest version of this escapade is that I "googled" the program, where I quickly learned that the program is bogus and that it is nearly impossible to remove it once it is installed. Great.......

One suggestion was given that was successful. I reinstalled it, it then showed up on the program file list which allowed me to UNINSTALL! WoooHoooo! No more pop-ups!

The moral of the story: Google BEFORE installation, not after!

A little off..............