Have you ever tried to uninstall FirefoxToolbar because you install it by mistake?
Have you been disappointed to remove Firefox
Toolbar through "Add or Remove Programs" in Windows Control
Panel, but you failed?
Have you ever been confused that you have
deleted Firefox Toolbar normally, but it is still there?
To avoid this trouble, you could learn and
follow Firefox Toolbar uninstall instructions in this article.
How to fully uninstall Firefox Toolbar from your PC?
Method 1: Normally Uninstall Firefox Toolbar with a
standard way
Tips 1: How to delete Firefox Toolbar through Windows Uninstall applet
Most of you would like to get rid of
program through Windows Control Panel. However, you might miss some steps so
that you are not able to delete Firefox Toolbar. Here are the removal guides:
You should reboot your PC and press F8 key on your keyboard. This will open
up the Advanced Boot Options screen, in Windows 7 or Vista, or the Windows
Advanced Options Menu in Windows XP. Using the arrow keys on your keyboard,
highlight the option labeled Safe Mode
with Networking. Once it is highlighted, click on the Enter key on your
keyboard.
Click “Start Menu” > Select Control
Panel option > “Uninstall a Program” (Programs and Features) > Find Firefox
Toolbar on the currently installed programs list and its related entries >
Click “Uninstall or Change” to delete the application.
And then, you should go back and click
“Start menu” button and select “Run.” > Type “regedit” into the box and click
“OK” to open Registry Editor > search and locate all registry entries related
to Firefox Toolbar.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM
CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion
How to Manually Get Rid of Firefox Toolbar
Step
1: stop all the related processes in Task Manager
Guide: Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time.
Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK.
Disable all the malicious processes
Step
2: show hidden files and folders and delete all the
following files.
Guide: click the Start button
and choose Control Panel, clicking
Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected
operating system files (Recommended).
Delete all the following files related to Firefox
Toolbar
%AppData%\.exe
%CommonAppData%\.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\.exe
%temp%\.exe
C:\Program Files\
Step
3: open Registry Editor to delete all invalid registries
entries as below
Guide: open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button
and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit
and pressing Enter. )
Delete all the related registries as below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msconfig.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msmpeng.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msseces.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = "%AppData%\.exe"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\.exe
After that, you should remove Firefox
Toolbar Toolbar from browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and IE by manual
Google Chrome:
1. Open
Chrome.
2. Click
on the Chrome menu and select Settings.
3. Click
on Extensions in the left side menu.
4. Remove/Disable
the Firefox Toolbar.
5. In
the Search section, click Manage search engines and remove Firefox Toolbar from
the default search engines list.
6. Click
OK to save the changes.
7. In
the Chrome menu, select Settings.
8. In
the On Startup section, Click on Set Pages and delete the Firefox Toolbar URL
(you can set a different home page by entering a URL of your choice).
9. Click
Ok to save the changes.
10. In
the Appearance section, click on Change and delete the Firefox Toolbar URL (you
can set a different home page).
11. Click
Ok to save the changes.
Internet Explorer
1. Click
on “Tools” and select Manage add-ons.
2. Under
Add-on Types, select Toolbars and Extensions.
3. In
the right pane, select Firefox Toolbar and click on the Disable button.
4. Under
Add-on Types, select Search Providers.
5. Select
Firefox Toolbar and click the Remove button.
6. In
the General tab, delete the Firefox Toolbar URL from the Home page text box.
7. Click
OK to save the changes
Mozilla Firefox
1. Open
Mozilla Firefox.
2. From
the Firefox orange button (or from the standard Tools menu), click on Add-ons.
3. Make
sure Extensions is selected in the Add-ons manager left side menu bar
4. Disable
or remove the Firefox Toolbar add-on
5. In
the General tab, delete the Firefox Toolbar URL from the home page text box.
6. Click
OK to save the changes.
If you open a new tab in Firefox and Firefox
Toolbar as home page, do the following:
Type: about:config in the address bar and
press enter
Confirm the message.
Type: browser.newtab.url in the Search text
field
Right-click on the result and select Firefox
Toolbar (or Reset in older versions)
After you finish steps, you should restart
your pc to confirm the Firefox Toolbar removal. If you are not good at handling
this method, you could try Tips 2 as
following.
Tips 2: How to fully delete Firefox Toolbar with Perfect Uninstaller?
If you can not follow the removal guides
above, it is advised you to get rid of Firefox Toolbar with Perfect Uninstaller as following.
2.
Close all running processes
including programs and browsers in the Task Manager before you run Perfect
Uninstaller
3.
Find and locate the program on
the currently installed programs list
4.
Click “Uninstall” button on the
right side to remove Firefox Toolbar.
Alternatively, you could right-click the
folder of the unwanted program (normally, in C:\Program Files) or C:\Program
Files (x86) in Windows 7 system 64 bits and then select “Force Uninstall with
PU” to apply the “Force Uninstall” utility.
5.
Follow the prompt “Next” steps
to delete Firefox Toolbar.
After you finish the onscreen removal
steps, Firefox Toolbar has been deleted from your PC.
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