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nomadreid
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A few days ago my computer crashed due to a hardware problem. I had it fixed at a shop which also, without my consent, installed a few new programs with the good intentions to improve the performance of my computer : Driver Booster 5, Advanced System Care 10, and Glary Utilities. In many countries I could complain, but I don't live in one of those, so the issue now is how to live with the new programs so I can use their advantages -- I could just delete these, but I might be throwing out the baby with the bath water. Also, if for example Driver Booster 5 has installed the update of a drive that causes an incompatibility and so needs to be rolled back, if I delete Driver Booster 5, I might lose all chance of finding out which drive that was. If I reset the whole computer to an earlier date and eliminate these programs, I would then lose the advantages of the updated drives. (I take Driver Booster as an example, because I haven't yet found out what the other two programs do.) So far there has been no major problems that I have detected, but I did get a short notice that one of the functions of Firefox would not work -- that once you have used a certain address numerous times, the address appears in a menu as soon as you click the address box -- due to an incompatibility with another program, but it didn't give me details. I am not too bothered about this particular incompatibility, but I would like to know how to find out, when an incompatibility arises, how to find out (and hence eliminate) the source of the incompatibility. If more details are necessary to answer this question, please let me know what those are.