Ask toolbar remove windows 7

The process itself is not complicated at all, provided that the user knows how to uninstall software in Windows. Close Internet Explorer and Firefox if either web browser is open.

To access the built-in Windows program uninstaller users needs to click on the start orb and select control panel from the available options. The click on Control Panel opens a list of tools and programs. Locate uninstall a program under Programs and open it with a left-click. Windows populates a list of all installed applications on the system. Locate the entry Ask Toolbar under the Name column. Right-click the entry and select uninstall from the menu.

Follow the uninstallation dialog. The Ask Toolbar is removed from Windows and should not appear in the uninstall a program window once the process has completed fully. Please note that it is possible to remove the Ask Toolbar directly from the toolbar Options.

Open Internet Explorer and locate the Ask Toolbar. Notice the little down arrow next to Options? Click on it and the following menu should appear. Select Uninstall from the context menu and Yes when asked if you are sure that you want to uninstall the product. Close all browser windows when asked to and continue with the uninstallation from this point on. Ask Toolbar Remover is a third party software that can be freely downloaded from the developer website.

The free software supports the removal of Ask Toolbar 4. Please note that it appears to be not compatible with the latest versions of the Ask Toolbar. The portable program needs to be unpacked before it can be started. The program can be used if an older version of the Ask Toolbar is installed on the system but appears to do nothing for recent versions of the Ask Toolbar even though it displays that the removal has been successful. Another option that you have is the free Adwcleaner program that you can download and run on your system.

It uses an all or nothing approach though and should be used with care. To use it, simply click on search to run a scan of your system. A text document is displayed afterwards which highlights the findings. If everything worked out fine, you will find traces of the Ask Toolbar in the file. To remove it, simply click on the delete button to remove the toolbar from your system.

Make sure that all browsers are closed before you run the delete command. Sometimes the Ask Toolbar cannot be uninstalled because of errors that are displayed when trying to do so. The most common error message is that a browser window is still open. Users should close all browser windows before they start the removal of the Ask Toolbar from their Windows PC.

I suggest a free tool called Revo Uninstaller if the toolbar cannot be uninstalled via the Windows uninstall a program Control Panel applet. Just download the free version of the uninstaller from the developer website and start it. I recommend that you download the portable version of the program. It displays a listing that looks fairly similar to the Windows uninstallation applet.

Locate the Ask Toolbar in the listing and right-click the entry. Select Uninstall from the context menu and confirm the alert that you want to uninstall the Ask Jeeves Toolbar. Keep the default uninstall mode Moderate and click Next. Another alert appears asking if you want to uninstall the product, click Yes once again.

Revo Uninstaller tries to uninstall the toolbar via its built-in uninstaller. This will fail again with the same error message. Revo Uninstaller will however scan the system for leftovers. It displays files and Registry entries of the Ask Toolbar in a listing. It is now up to the user to select those entries and delete them from the system. Update : Ask. You can download the toolbar from this location directly.

Note that it won't close browsers or processes, but configures the system to remove the toolbar on the start of it. While it will remove the toolbar from the system, it may not change the search provider back to the original one from Ask which means that you will have to do that manually.

I'd also like to point out that some extensions installed in the browser may prevent the manual uninstallation of the Ask toolbar in Chrome. If that is the case try disabling all extensions for the time being before you uninstall the Ask Toolbar. I hope Ghacks could also published method to remove other toolbar such as Google Toolbar of Yahoo Toolbar just to name a few.

And they are easy to remove. Shawn has it right on the nose. Such companies as ask. They are as crooked as they come. They and companies like them should be outlawed! I actually got a second ask toolbar, and I have not downloaded anything. Ask has gone incognito. This shit should be illegal. Ccleaner has a list of all the programs on their tools tab, its very easy to select one and delete it.

I keep on getting the above message even though IE and Firefox are closed. The ask entry in add or remove programs seems to be crazy glued there. I found Toolbar Uninstaller from Decomputer. Nor does it appear in the Control Panel under programs. Thank you for publishing this! Ive been trying to get rid of that piece of crap toolbar for several weeks! I have the Ask tool bar in my browser and it will not uninstall I have tried everything.

Is there a tool I can down load to get it off my firefox browser? I found that neither the Ask toolbar remover nor the Revo uninstaller worked so still trying to find an answer. I have tried many other ideas so anything that works would be appreciated at my Kaspersky virus checker will not scan due to it.

I have come across others with the same problem. I have tried to find it under Revo, CCleaner and Windows uninstaller. Everytime I open Google Chrome it brings me to the Ask page. Any other ideas? I see that for us Chrome users, the directions which I mentioned are not accurate do not work. I am still waiting for a solution, Geeks! Then parts of Ask persisted after the use of T-Tools Antiseptic v1.

Just to add to Tyler's response, Mozilla would never bundle Firefox with something like the Ask toolbar -- this always gets installed through various third-party software that tend to bundle stuff like this and modify your Firefox experience. Sorry about the inconvenience, and let us know if you can successfully uninstall Ask using the instructions provided above.

If you go to 'programs and features' in Windows 7 then you will find an uninstall for this toolbar in there. In future, when installing other softwares, look out for the sneaky page where they ask if you want to install it and uncheck the appropriate box to say 'no', I don't want this software installed.

As above, it's often bundled with things like Java. I tried to modify the config string to rid myself of the Ask. What do I do. The malware program I have doesn't see this as malware at all. Greetings - we're always happy to help people remove our Toolbar from systems. Just send our support team an email, and they'll get right back to you with detailed instructions.

I have not been able to remove the Ask search engine from Firefox. After the scan is complete, you will see a list of registry entries left behind by the program, select them then click Finish to thoroughly remove the program from your system. The default uninstaller should work for most persons, but for those troublesome programs, the Force Uninstall feature and advanced scanning options will give you more control.

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I got infected with ask downloading a free program. Can anyone give me idiot proof instructions on how to use this Tool Bar Uninstaller? Many Thanks. Jesus i hate this ASK. If u r asking me , i think this ASK is a virus and have behaving as a virus. I have a bigger problem with this as the toolbar is now crashing firfox on startup I have compleatly removed the asktool bar from my computer and firefox still crashes on start up. But to uninstall the bar I had to give a permission windows vista to let an unknown programe access to my laptop.

Only when I permitted this I was able to uninstall the tool bar for firefox , but my computer began to act weirdly after I uninstalled the ask. So I woke up to see my computer turned on. Hell yeah. I spend the rest of the night worrying my butt off. Now I have scanned my computer with McAfee anti virus and no viruses was detected. What should I do? I was able to uninstall it from the control panel of windows 7. Worked like a charm. I do use Google chrome and followed your instructions and got rid of it!!!

What next? Ask Toolbar made my PC extremely slow.