I reinstalled my win7 PC yesterday and when I launched Nvidia Control Panel today and wanted to set profile for specific application, there were applications from previous installment visible (i had "Show only programs installed" checked). When I typed the name into Start and clicked "Open location" I got message it no longer exists.
What i did when reinstalling was as usual except I just removed all partitions (so the whole disk was unspecified space) and then ran installation on that.
Does this means that if there was virus in my previous installment could it survive (if we dont count specific cases of viruses who resides in MOBO's UEFI bios or something)? Also i did Avast/MalwareBytes check which found nothing before reinstallment but PC acted really strange. Could it be just some registry entries which survived or undeleted memory on disk which somehow gets read?
Thanks for any explanation/clarification.
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directory. You indicated that the partitions were deleted, became unallocated space, and Windows was installed to that. Once you provided that information it was clear, you were originally not clear, one what data still exists on your system. Which is the reason, I requested more information, because what data still exists is not clear. Now your welcome to accept the answer you received, that is entirely up to you, but you should still improve the question.