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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1840792" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>On Softonic: Softonic is a website that aggregates apps for downloading. No harm in that, it's a useful service. However, Softonic, like a few other aggregators, adds its own crapware to the download and installs it when you think you are installing the app you downloaded. So, if you downloaded those apps from Softonic and then installed them, the Softonic stuff piggy-backed on it. The lesson to be learned is not to go to aggregators like Softonic, Downloads.com, etc, to get software. Use either the Apple Store, or go directly to the developer to get the software. You can get Google Chrome and Google Earth Pro from Google. Google Earth is here, for example: <a href="https://www.google.com/earth/" target="_blank">Google Earth</a> and Chrome here: <a href="https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html" target="_blank">Google Chrome - The New Chrome & Most Secure Web Browser</a></p><p></p><p>So no need to go to an aggregator and every reason not to do that.</p><p></p><p>Copy and paste is not that hard. Use the cursor to go to the start of what you want to copy, then hold down the key and drag to cover what you want. It should highlight in blue. Once you have it all selected, release the mouse button and it should stay highlighted. Now you have some choices. On the top bar of wherever you are should be an "Edit" tab where you can select "copy" or you can just hold CMD and tap the "c" key to copy it. Now move the mouse to where you want the copied material to go and either click on Edit/Paste, or just CMD and "v" to paste the copied material. Now if you had wanted to "cut" the material (Erase it from the original location), then instead of CMD-C, you can use CMD-X, which copies it for you temporarily and deletes it from where it was. You can still paste it where you want it to go, so you can either Copy/Paste or Cut/Paste.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1840792, member: 396914"] On Softonic: Softonic is a website that aggregates apps for downloading. No harm in that, it's a useful service. However, Softonic, like a few other aggregators, adds its own crapware to the download and installs it when you think you are installing the app you downloaded. So, if you downloaded those apps from Softonic and then installed them, the Softonic stuff piggy-backed on it. The lesson to be learned is not to go to aggregators like Softonic, Downloads.com, etc, to get software. Use either the Apple Store, or go directly to the developer to get the software. You can get Google Chrome and Google Earth Pro from Google. Google Earth is here, for example: [url=https://www.google.com/earth/]Google Earth[/url] and Chrome here: [url=https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html]Google Chrome - The New Chrome & Most Secure Web Browser[/url] So no need to go to an aggregator and every reason not to do that. Copy and paste is not that hard. Use the cursor to go to the start of what you want to copy, then hold down the key and drag to cover what you want. It should highlight in blue. Once you have it all selected, release the mouse button and it should stay highlighted. Now you have some choices. On the top bar of wherever you are should be an "Edit" tab where you can select "copy" or you can just hold CMD and tap the "c" key to copy it. Now move the mouse to where you want the copied material to go and either click on Edit/Paste, or just CMD and "v" to paste the copied material. Now if you had wanted to "cut" the material (Erase it from the original location), then instead of CMD-C, you can use CMD-X, which copies it for you temporarily and deletes it from where it was. You can still paste it where you want it to go, so you can either Copy/Paste or Cut/Paste. [/QUOTE]
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