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How to restrain SPEEDbit

Oct 25, 2011 6:09PM PDT

SPEED bit takes over as the Search
tool .for my Google page. Is SpeedBit independent of Download accelerator Plus? I want neither Speed Bit nor Internet Explorer on my Desktop. How do I get rid of this incubus?

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Re: speedbit
Oct 25, 2011 6:51PM PDT

- Speedbit seems to be video accelerator (from the same maker as DAP), but I don't see how a video accelerator (whatever that may be) takes over as a search tool.
- What, by the way, do you mean with "search tool for your google page"?
- You can't remove Internet Explorer from Windows. But, of course, you can delete all shortcuts you see.
- If you don't want speedbit, why did you install it?

Kees

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How to restrain Speedbit -by muttalpaiyan
Oct 27, 2011 4:30AM PDT

Thank you, Kees_B,
I use DAP, and recently I updated to a new version. After that, whenever I open my Google page, the address bar bears the statement 'Search by SPEEDbit. Previously it was Google that did the honours. Thus I have to bypass the SPEEDbit 'opening', click on a new tab and get the "thumb-nail tabs"(?) of the the Google page, click on to either GOOGLE or on the G mail tabs for my internet work. Previously I did not have to take the circuitous route. I have removed the DAP and the associated Speedbit Video accelerator apps with great difficulty. They could not be removed by using Windows removal tools. I had to use Revo Uninstaller.
After all this, When I open my Google Page, now, there sits the " Search by SPEEDbit" at the right of the address bar and also at the title bar !
I am relatively a newbie to computer terminology and some of my terms may not be the correct ones.

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Re: speedbit
Oct 27, 2011 4:37AM PDT

Just 2 questions to get a better idea.
1. What is "my Google Page"? I don't think I have one.
2. What version of Internet Explorer do you use (IE 6, 7, 8, 9)?

Kees

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Re: speedbit --New! --By Kees_B
Oct 27, 2011 6:53AM PDT

What I meant by my Google page is the page that opens when I click on the Google Chrome ikon in my desktop or in the taskbar. This opens up a page with six 'tabs' which will enable me to get to either the Google Search page or to my email pages. With the SPEEDbit occupying the Address bar, it involved additional step of circumventing this speedbit.
Just now, I was 'pottering around' with the Google Chrome tool bar and clicked on the options, and lo ! I discovered That the column "Search" was occupied by... ... guess what "Speedbit Search" So was
the column for 'Default Browser' occupied by the same. I have promptly removed them, substituted Google for either of the columns and hey, Presto! I am back to my original search terms [ but it needed a reboot ].


Thank you very much, Kees_B. I am learning !
muttalpaiyan

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(NT) Good job and thanks for telling.
Oct 27, 2011 6:06PM PDT