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How do I remove Google toolbar?

May 31, 2005 10:38PM PDT

I have tried uninstall and various toolbar blockers and removers, but nothing can remove it from IE/View/Toolbars. Google loaded without my permission. Micros Anti-spy, confirms it is resident without being authenticated.
I chose Yahoo as my search engine and I like it that way. Why does Google always force its way into my browser pages?

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Cannot do those two things
May 31, 2005 11:13PM PDT

Google just showed up one day in my toolbar settings, but the toolbar itself is not usable or appearing. The Google Icon has never been on my toolbar and never showed up in my, Start/programs list. I have no way of uninstalling it normally. Sorry Ron, but the link gave two options that are unavailable to me.
Although it doesn't seem to do any harm; sometimes when I typed a search word in my Yahoo engine, the resulting page suddenly changed to Google at the top, with google results listed below it. So I deleted the Google dll. file and that stopped happening. Should I try to install google purposely and then uninstall it properly?

WinXP/SP2 and IE.

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It appears...
May 31, 2005 11:27PM PDT

You are not applying yourself and reading the solutions.

I think you should ask someone to come in and fix the machine for you.

Bob

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Well, maybe
May 31, 2005 11:37PM PDT

The link you gave me led to that, all too familiar Google search page, with 1,040,000 results for: Unstalling Google TB. I clicked on the first two links.
I look in my Start/programs everywhere, all subdirects, no google listed there, no uninstall option.
I will go back and read further.

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Ron who???
May 31, 2005 11:40PM PDT

Sorry Bob. Didn't mean to call you Ron. Oops.

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Agreed, I won't call you Sally.
May 31, 2005 11:45PM PDT

If it was my machine, I'd just pull up Hijackthis and look for an entry like this one.

O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll

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Did that, Google is there
Jun 1, 2005 1:30AM PDT

HJT log shows the Toolbar and says the dll. file is missing. MASB did block the toolbar, but cannot remove it. When I click on my IE's View tab and then click toolbars; I get a sub-list of: Standard buttons, Address bar, Links, Yahoo! and Google. Google is greyed out, but I am a perfectionist, Obsessive personality. I must get the grey google gone.

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Sorry, I can't help.
Jun 1, 2005 1:35AM PDT

If the toolbar doesn't show except in some odd menu, then its gone. If I wanted to, I'd look in the registry but I know when to stop playing and start using the machine.

Others need to keep digging.

Bob

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Okay, I surrender.
Jun 1, 2005 1:51AM PDT

I can live with it.
I once had ICQ listed there, with same greyed look. trying to un-install, re-install IE, didn't stop it. Reformatting XP did erase it, however.
Wonder if this would happen, if I attempt un-installing Yahoo Toolbar, as well?

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Okay, Still reading and...
Jun 1, 2005 12:26AM PDT

This may turn out to be my next little adventure. Toolbars: The barred and borrowed.
I am browsing through Google searches right now and this is turning out weird? I end up all over the place and it is all confusing. Google has taken me through two other search engines from it's links and I still haven't found the original linked subject result. One was called, MyGo Search page. helpful results are 17% on target? That is the best search result from Google on how to remove itself: 17 percent accurate search attempt.
Yahoo would have found my link immediately, on the first search page and the link would have taken me directly to said page, not another search engine with more links under it. Simple, fast, fun.

The secret to a happy internet experience is:

Getting to browse through all the links and colorful stuff, especially when I am in the right website.
Getting to click on all those, animated gif. files. Google takes that away from me by listing them in a drop down, plain black on white text. Yes this means; I can scroll down and just click right to the page in the website, but I just missed out on the homepage and any new content there. This is why the library is dead and dying: The internet added certain bonuses to research and entertainment. Some browsers and toolbars, in an attempt to make surfing easier, have taken those same bonuses away from me.
It's those added little thrills and frills that made the internet so addictive for me. Google is trying to make the internet search experience easier, but at what cost? Takes up too much space and makes the internet boring, like Black on white paperbacks.

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Sure its a good book, but no pictures?
Jun 1, 2005 12:29AM PDT

In a nutshell.