We have already seen how to
manually uninstall some toolbars which may have got installed on your Internet Explorer,
Chrome,
Firefox,
Opera
or other browsers. While in most cases it may be possible to uninstall
them via the Control Panel or the respective browsers’ Add-ons Manager,
in some cases, it may not be possible and you may have to use some tools
to remove such persistent toolbars.
Some toolbars which are
difficult to remove are Ask toolbar, Babylon toolbar, AVG SecureSearch,
SiteSafety, MyFree toolbar, C duit toolbar, ZXY toolbar,
Anonymization toolbar, GameNext toolbar, MPire toolbar,
MyWebSearch toolbar, NetCraft toolbar, People Search toolbar, Public
Record toolbar, Zango toolbar, Elite toolbar, etc. The list is endless,
with many wanting to push toolbars for various reasons. It could be for
making money with every install, for pushing pop-ups or for tracking
down your computer usage.
In this post we will see some free Toolbar Removers that may help you with the job.
Toolbar Removers
As
mentioned earlier, while most genuine toolbars like the Google, Bing,
Yahoo, etc toolbars can be uninstalled completely from the Control
Panel, others like the Ask toolbar, Babylon toolbar, AVG SecureSearch,
SiteSafety, etc. may not be so easy to uninstall via the Control Panel
or by using the browsers Addons Manage – for such nasty toolbars, you
could use any one of these free tools.
Make sure that you close all browsers before you run the toolbar removal tool.
Toolbar Cleaner
Toolbar Cleaner
for Windows can be used to remove toolbars from Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. It scans the browsers for installed
toolbars, BHO’s and extensions, and displays all of them in its
interface. During installation it will ask you to install Anti-phishing
Domain Advisor and set MyStart as the home page. You may want to
uncheck these options.
Multi-Toolbar Remover
The
Multi-Toolbar Remover offers limited support. It will only help removed selected toolbars like AOL, Comcast and so on.
The Toolbar Uninstaller
The
Toolbar Uninstaller
helps get rid of unwanted toolbars. Many programs come bundled with a
toolbar that gets installed automatically if you don’t pay attention
during the installation.
Avast Browser Cleanup Tool
Avast Browser Cleanup Tool will
scan all your browsers and list down add-ons, plugins and toolbars
which have a poor reputation. You don’t need to have Avast
Antivirus installed on your computer to be able to use it.
Smart Toolbar Remover
Smart Toolbar Remover will work on IE, Firefox and Chrome and will identify and help remove toolbars.
AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner searches for and helps delete Toolbars, Browser Hijackers (BHO) and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP) from your computer.
Junkware Removal Tool
Junkware
Removal Tool searches for and removes common toolbars, and potentially
unwanted programs from your computer. It removes Ask Toolbar, Babylon,
Browser Manager, Claro / iSearch, Conduit, Coupon Printer for Windows,
Crossrider, DealPly, Facemoods, Funmoods, iLivid, Iminent, IncrediBar,
MyWebSearch, Searchqu and Web Assistant presently. It is available
here.
Ask Toolbar Remover
Use this
Ask Toolbar Remover from Ask.com to remove the unpopular Ask Toolbar.
Even
after you uninstall most toolbars, it will not reset your home page and
search engine back to your old defaults. You will have to do so
manually.
