How to Remove a Toolbar

Surfing on the web these days can be fraught with peril. Invasive ad-ware and spy-ware can be installed on your system almost without warning just because you accepted an invitation for some new tool offered on a website or through an email.

Have you ever opened up your web browser to discover that it has grown another toolbar overnight? 

This little blessing is supposed to make your browsing experience better, but often times it just ends up stealing a precious half inch from your browser window and perhaps even ends up slowing your computer down.

Do you know that many of these toolbars are tracking your behavior on the web and transmitting the information back to the owners? 

Information about how users search for information and what kind of sites they end up visiting is valuable and there are many who will pay big money for it. 

Do you want someone profiting from you without you having any idea just how much they’re telling someone else about you?

Helpful and friendly toolbars can also be a source of those irritating pop up windows that you’re always trying to get rid of.

Not all toolbars are bad.  Google offers a toolbar that fights pop up windows and lets you search from anywhere.  Alexa offers a toolbar that suggests useful related websites according to where you’re at right now.  Both toolbars have a tracking function that you can turn off if you wish.

If you want to surf without your toolbars, you can use the ‘view’ option on your browser window and ‘unclick’ the toolbar you don’t wish to see.  If you’ve found that you have a toolbar installed that you want permanently removed, follow these steps: Click on ‘Start’ – ‘Settings’ – ‘Control Panel’ – ‘Add/Remove Software’, then find the name of the offending tool bar and remove it.

Some toolbars will be difficult to remove. They’ll try to trick you into keeping it. Just read everything carefully and be sure not to agree to any other downloads in the process of removal.

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