fashiongurl said:
I have a blue toolbar that's above the start menu and along hte bottom going
to along till hte system tray. It's called mysearchnow or searchnow. HOw do
I get rid of it. I did Search and destroy and some of hte spyware scans that
I can do w/o paying for it. Can someone help me please? It's bugging the heck
out of me.
Yo may be right about the 'blowing smoke'! Try Add/Remove first, though
it probably won't work. Then, find it in 'Programs',right click the exe,
(if you don't see the exe go to 'Tools' 'Folder Options' 'View' and
uncheck the 'Hide extensions for known file types'and close the window)
then select 'Properties', 'Version'; go through the 'Items' list and
make notes of the Company name, File name, Original name, etc. Then go
to 'Run' 'msconfig' 'Startup' tab and look for the name, uncheck it.
Then go to 'Run', 'regedit' Go to 'File' 'Export' and pick somewhere to
put the registry backup,in case you goof. Then open
'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', 'Software' and look for the company or file name
there; look at the values inside to confirm that it is what you're
looking for. The Registry can bite real hard if you screw it up, so make
sure it's the right thing, that's why you backed it up first. Delete the
@#%^&#%^&!! {8^) Then go back to the 'Programs' and delete things one by
one from the folder. All the files and folders inside, the 'Dat' and
'ini' files; the dll's you probably will have to move to the desktop and
wait 'til after you restart in order to delete. Good luck! And for
future reference, pay very close attention when you install things that
you select custom options if possible to deslect these 'cool' tool bars
and other assorted junk. These things are insidious and very hard to get
rid of!!
