F9 opens an annoying program

[William]

When i try to do something like play a game, if i press
F9, "My Search Bar" loads up, i uninstalled this prog
ages ago but i don't know why whenever i press F9 it
loads. It is relly annoying especially in games when they
map the quick load to F9. How could i stop this cause i
don't know where it is mapped. It doesn't matter what's
running, but pressing F9 loads it up. Can someone plase
help me?

Thanks.

 

[Stephen Johnson]

Probably an active program monitoring the keys you press, so when you press
F9 it launches the program. Take a screenshot of your startup programs, and
attach it to your next message. I also suggest that you download Ad-aware
(http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10214379.html) and scan your computer for
spyware. If you download Spybot
(http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10194058.html) you can see what programs
are embedded in Internet Explorer, which may also help.

How to take a screenshot (if you don't already know):
1. Make sure what you are trying to capture is on the screen
2. Press the Print Scrn key on your keyboard. It is next to Scroll Lock and
Pause/Break
Note: If you only want to capture the current window, rather than
the whole screen, hold the ALT while you press Print Scrn
3. Load Paint (Start Menu>All Programs>Accessories>Paint)
4. Press Ctrl + V to paste into the current window
5. Make sure there is no extra whitespace on the sides of the image. If
there is, just drag the sides in
6. Save that file as a JPG. If you save it as a BMP the file will be 10
times as big
7. Now you can email the screenshot to someone

Feel free to respond on email if it's better for you. Just remember to
remove the spam-filter part of my email address.

Stephen

 

[William]

Thanks for replying,

No it is not running at startup, or as an IE addin. I
think it's a shortcut cause i can't assign F9 to any
shortcut as a hotkey, but i can assign the others (F8
etc.) no problems. But i am still at a loss 'cause if it
is a shortcut, I can't find it

 

[Stephen Johnson]

Maybe you can figure out what program it's loading, then search for the file
and delete it.