Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the vast amount of toolbars which seem to have accumulated on my browser?

Question

It is probably very straightforward but I cant remember how to get rid of the extra toolbars and they are taking over my browser now !!

Answer 1

If I were you I would check for spyware. Toolbars that appear for no reason is a sign of spywar/adware.

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http://www.safer-networking.org/

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Answer 2

Assuming you're employing IE, stunning click on the toolbar section and additionally you may desire to work out a itemizing of distinctive names, that are the toolbars uncheck those which you dont desire and additionally you may desire to be superb. i could pass into administration panel--> upload eliminate pgms-> and locate the toolbar application and eliminate it from there completely.

Answer 3

To just not see them put your cursor on the toolbar area and right click then uncheck the ones you don't want to see. To get rid of them go to start, control panel, add/remove programs and then remove each one you do not want.
That should solve your problem.

Answer 4

There are two ways. you can just hide them by going view-toolbars and deselect the ones that you dont want or go and uninstall them which is normally in the add and remove programs. Hope this helps!!

Answer 5

at top of page click view then click toolbars untick all the ones you don't use.to remove completely click start then all programmes then add and remove scroll down and just delete which ones

Answer 6

Right click over the tool bars and untick the ones you don't want.

Answer 7

Go to control panel add/remove and highlight the one you want to remove and click on remove.

Answer 8

right click anywhere on ur toolbar and un-tick any toolbars you dont want

Answer 9

Go to tools and remove the ones you don't want