If you’ve downloaded and installed Avast Browser Cleanup standalone version on your computer, you can notice Avast browser Cleanup scheduler (32-bit) running under background processes tab in Task Manager in Windows 10. Right clicking the process and selecting ‘Go to details’ takes you to the Details tab, showing bcusched.exe running with description Avast Browser Cleanup Scheduler. If you don’t want this process to run in the background, you can disable it, here is how that can be done.
Before doing that, you may want to know what is bcusched.exe and why it is running and what it is doing.
What is bcusched.exe and why it is running?
Avast BC tool schedules this process to run silently once a day in the background. It performs a quick scan for for Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers for annoying toolbars and notifies you if it finds any with a bad user rating.
The browser Cleanup tool itself offers a setting to disable that scheduled task and the setting says the tool doesn’t consume too much memory or CPU resources.
READ: How to disable CCleaner’s Scheduled tasks and Startup Item
Disable Avast Browser Cleanup Scheduler (bcusched.exe)
- Launch Avast Browser Cleanup
- Click on Settings,
- Under General Settings, uncheck ‘ check my browsers regularly for toolbars with a bad user rating.’
If you’ve found ABC tool unnecessary after running once for bad add-ons, you can uninstall it, here is how you can do that.
Also see: Avast Browser Cleanup Auto Deletes Firefox Add-ons
Uninstall Avast Browser Cleanup
- Open Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features
- Select Avast Browser Cleanup and click Uninstall and follow the instructions on the screen.
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