Help Please!!! How to enable the IE View-Toolbar menu

[Shelley]

All of my choices in the IE 6 SP1 view-Toolbar menu
are "shaded out". Some ridiculous spyware search/toolbar
that I accidentally downloaded and have since uninstalled
did this and even after uninstall I haven't been able to
figure out how to restore this menu. If anyone has any
advice, I'd sure appreciate it, since this is a new
computer and something is already messed up on it

Thanks so much,
Shelley

 

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Shelley,

Use this registry fix:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/RepairTabs.reg
1) Restores the missing Tabs in IE (usually spyware related)
2) Unlocks the grayed-out Home Page section
3) Removes the Administrator message in Internet Options

After that, download Ad-Aware from here:
http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download/
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the nasties that cannot be deleted at once ("in use").

Also excellent is SpyBot Search & Destroy available here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the nasties that cannot be deleted at once ("in use").

Even if Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D are similar, they do clean different things. You should have both of them and use REGULARLY.

You can also install "preventive" software that will help you control these nasties:

SpywareBlaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Avoids malicious Active X installs.
Advantage: no system resources used!!!
Just download, install and UPDATE.

SpywareGuard:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
Monitors for attempts to install malicious software.

All of them extremely useful but you must keep them UPDATED.

Zee

 

[Shelley]

Thanks so much Zee! This seemed to do the trick and I'm
downloading the anti-spyware programs ASAP.

Shelley

-----Original Message-----

Shelley,

Use this registry fix:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/RepairTabs.reg
1) Restores the missing Tabs in IE (usually spyware related)
2) Unlocks the grayed-out Home Page section
3) Removes the Administrator message in Internet Options

After that, download Ad-Aware from here:
http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download/
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the

nasties that cannot be deleted at once ("in use").

Also excellent is SpyBot Search & Destroy available here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the

nasties that cannot be deleted at once ("in use").

Even if Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D are similar, they do

clean different things. You should have both of them and
use REGULARLY.

You can also install "preventive" software that will

help you control these nasties:

SpywareBlaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Avoids malicious Active X installs.
Advantage: no system resources used!!!
Just download, install and UPDATE.

SpywareGuard:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
Monitors for attempts to install malicious software.

All of them extremely useful but you must keep them UPDATED.

Zee







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Shelley,

Great news.

Thanks for the feedback and use the software I recommended.

Zee