It is no secret that, over time, we accumulate all kinds of software on the computer. Whether it’s because the programs came installed when we bought the computer, because we installed them ourselves, or because some malicious installer sneaked them in, we’re sure to have software on our PC that we not only don’t need, but that is making our PC not work as it should. And today we are going to see 7 examples of this type of software.
Before continuing, make it clear that the programs that we are going to see are not malicious, nor are they potentially unwanted software. They are all reliable and safe programs, but they sneak into the PC in one way or another, we don’t need them and we never use them and, in the end, they only take up disk space and end up slowing down the computer.
flash-player
Flash it has been an essential complement to the evolution of the Internet. But, for many years now, it has been nothing more than a gateway to malware. And not only that, but since January 2021, it hasn’t even been officially supported by Adobe, posing an even greater unnecessary risk to our security. A program that, in the middle of 2022, we can still find installed on many computers and that we must delete as soon as possible.
CCleaner
This program has been, for many years, one of the best programs to clean the computer of all kinds of junk and unwanted files. However, ever since avast was made with CCleaner, it has become a program best avoided. The program unintentionally runs in the background, collects user data and displays advertisements. In addition, there are fewer and fewer features that are still free, so it constantly invites us to pay for the Pro version. It’s a shame that it has gone from being a must-have program to a program that we recommend uninstalling.
If we want a good cleaner for Windows, we can bet on Bleachbit or the Windows Storage Sensor itself.
quick time
Surely many of us have this multimedia player installed, even without knowing it. And this is the default video player for macOS, Apple’s operating system, which also had a version for Windows. However, similar to Safari, Apple stopped maintaining the Windows version of its media player. quick time in 2016, so it is an abandoned software for more than 8 years. And not only that, but security firms like Trend Micro have shown that it has serious vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities that, being unsupported, will not be fixed.
There are great alternatives to Quicktime, like VLC or Media Player Classic.
uTorrent
Something similar to what happens with CCleaner happens with this program. And it is that, in a few years, uTorrent It has gone from being the best program to download Internet torrents to being a software that brings more problems than benefits to users. It has become a slow program, full of unnecessary features, advertising, and a business model that repeatedly encourages us to pay to use the program.
For this reason, having alternatives such as Transmission or qBittorrent, it is better to forget about uTorrent.
Windows bloatware
Lastly, another type of software that is seriously harming our computer is windows bloatware. This type of software is everything that is installed by default in the operating system and that, in reality, we neither need nor are we likely to use in our lives. We are talking, for example, about augmented reality programs, the Clipchamp video editor, and even the games that Microsoft installs by default on our PC.
Although in the first versions of Windows 10 it was somewhat complicated to delete this type of software, today we can do it with a simple mouse click.
