clean hard drive win 10


  1. Posts : 126
    win 10
       #1

    clean hard drive win 10


    does win 10 have have a built in feature to remove corrupt or spy software for unit win 10 mine is slow booting up?if npt whats is a good free software Thanks
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    Win10 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home, Win7, Linux Mint
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    It may depend upon the type of infection. As to fully cleaning a drive I use Linux Mint with a USB Drive Dock running GPARTED to fully delete any partitions on a drive to get an as-shipped condition, gets rid of partitions Windows Disk Management can't. Some information about rootkit infections:
    rootkit infection at DuckDuckGo
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  3. Posts : 5,048
    Windows 10/11 Pro x64, Various Linux Builds, Networking, Storage, Cybersecurity Specialty.
       #3

    Ben Daniels said:
    does win 10 have have a built in feature to remove corrupt or spy software for unit win 10 mine is slow booting up?if npt whats is a good free software Thanks
    Hi.

    Just adding to the post by @Berton.

    I would suggest downloading Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware (Free) and running a full system scan.
    If it reports anything abnormal, please post it here.

    Link -

    https://try.malwarebytes.com/free-download

    TIA

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  4. Posts : 18,432
    Windows 11 Pro
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    Ben Daniels said:
    does win 10 have have a built in feature to remove corrupt or spy software for unit win 10 mine is slow booting up?if npt whats is a good free software Thanks
    Yes, it is called Windows Defender. But, I would also highly recommend running another anti-virus such as Malwarebytes.
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  5. Posts : 5,048
    Windows 10/11 Pro x64, Various Linux Builds, Networking, Storage, Cybersecurity Specialty.
       #5

    NavyLCDR said:
    Yes, it is called Windows Defender. But, I would also highly recommend running another anti-virus such as Malwarebytes.
    That should be on automatically, so further investigation is warranted.

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