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cirreb217
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How to Remove Toolbars?

09/07/2007 8:16 AM

My laptop computer has at the top of the usable screen space in the Mozilla Firefox browser window are two horizontal strips - I suppose they are called Toolbars.

The lower one includes the exhortation to "Upgrade to the latest Yahoo Toolbar and the one above says "Customize links, Free Hotmail, Windows, Windows Media"

How do I remove these strips (toolbars?)

Apart from the fact I did not know Hotmail had been incarcerated and required freeing, I dislike having to see US Microsoftised English spelling for "Customerise", even if Spellcheck cannot spell ordinary English words.
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bhankiii
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Re: How to Remove Toolbars?

09/07/2007 11:07 AM

Go to Start - control panel - add/remove programs, find these things and remove them.

Alternatively, from Firefox, View - toolbars - deselect them. But I'd still remove the programs.

These things are usually attached to something else you've downloaded. Always read the fine print.
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cirreb217
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Re: How to Remove Toolbars?

09/08/2007 10:09 AM

Thanks - there were three toolbars checked in there and I unchecked them all and voila! All gone - magik.

I see Yahoo left in the top row, so I looked in there and found Yahoo Toolbar, so I unchecked that and was asked did I want to uninstall it, and Yes and then the message that Yahoo Toolbar will be uninstalled next time I start up. Great News.

Now I have the neat screen again.

Great and once more THANKS
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