Search bar on task bar

[Nancy]

Please see my reply to Richard Urban at 2:12 P.M.

Describe what it is in more detail. We can't see.

 

[Guest]

Attachments are permitted here though there is a maximun file size.

Malke said it was HP and I don't suppose there is an HP in the toolbar menu.
If not choose Advisor preferences and there should be an option there hidden
somewhere as Malke said.

 

[Nancy]

I think you hit the nail on the head. But I opened the advisor and there
are no startup options to get rid of this thing ... that I can see. I went
into "General Settings" but had unchecked "launch HP Advisor automatically
on start-up" long ago. It doesn't get rid of that dreaded "mini window".
Nothing seems to apply. What am I missing?

 

[Nancy]

I had opted not to have "HP Total Care Advisor" come up last week but the
dreaded search "mini window" still comes up!

 

[CanaKiwi]

maybe in all your playing around you've messed it up a little so it is no
longer working as designed....I don't know, I'm just guessing that might
have happened and I'm not being critical.

You could perform a system restore to get your computer back to how it was
before you started digging around then attack it again now that you know
where to focus.

 

[Malke]

I think you hit the nail on the head. But I opened the advisor and
there are no startup options to get rid of this thing ... that I can
see. I went into "General Settings" but had unchecked "launch HP Advisor
automatically on start-up" long ago. It doesn't get rid of that dreaded
"mini window". Nothing seems to apply. What am I missing?

I don't know what you're missing because I don't have a new HP laptop
here to take a look. All I can tell you is that the option to show/not
show the Yahoo search bar is somewhere (probably buried) in one of the
many parts of this PC Health Center - I think. I know you can disable it
because I did it. I'm sorry but I can't tell you exactly where. It might
not even be in that PC Health thing but I *know* it was preinstalled by
HP and disabling it is not in an intuitive place. I just did a bit of
creative Googling and can't find anything except news reports that HP
made a lucrative agreement with Yahoo.

So I'm sorry but you'll just have to search harder. You can do it! If
worst comes to worst, call up HP tech support.


Malke

 

[Nancy]

I don't know what you're missing because I don't have a new HP laptop here
to take a look. All I can tell you is that the option to show/not show the
Yahoo search bar is somewhere (probably buried) in one of the many parts
of this PC Health Center - I think. I know you can disable it because I
did it. I'm sorry but I can't tell you exactly where. It might not even be
in that PC Health thing but I *know* it was preinstalled by HP and
disabling it is not in an intuitive place. I just did a bit of creative
Googling and can't find anything except news reports that HP made a
lucrative agreement with Yahoo.

So I'm sorry but you'll just have to search harder. You can do it! If
worst comes to worst, call up HP tech support.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Oh, anything but that (calling support again)! <lol> I went into Windows
Explorer and found the HP Advisor folder. Under it there is a file named
"HPadvisor.exe.config". What should I use to open that? I fear doing
anything without advice. Just afraid to foul something up. Is that indeed
the place I need to change?

 

[Malke]

Nancy wrote:

Windows Explorer and found the HP Advisor folder. Under it there is a
file named "HPadvisor.exe.config". What should I use to open that? I
fear doing anything without advice. Just afraid to foul something up.
Is that indeed the place I need to change?

That's not the place, so don't bother. It is an option that is simple to
use and it clearly refers to the Yahoo Search Bar - I just don't
remember where I found it.

Malke

 

[Malke]

Oh, anything but that (calling support again)! <lol> I went into
Windows Explorer and found the HP Advisor folder. Under it there is a
file named "HPadvisor.exe.config". What should I use to open that? I
fear doing anything without advice. Just afraid to foul something up.
Is that indeed the place I need to change?

Ignore my last post - I persisted with Google and I believe I have found
your answer. The setting is coming from the HP Advisor toolbar. This is
what I found from Google:

Control Panel>Taskbar>Start Menu>Toolbars - Uncheck HP Advisor.

but that doesn't make sense to me. Try just right-clicking on an empty
area of the Taskbar and then choose Toolbars - slide your cursor over to
the right and uncheck the HP (or Yahoo) entry. Then if HP Advisor shows
up in the Control Panel "Programs & Features" you could uninstall it if
you want. I don't know what else HP Advisor does and you might want to
keep it.


Malke

 

[Guest]

It's a/ what I said, and b/ both directions do the same thing. Taskbar and
Start menu (not Taskbar then Start menu) has a new toolbar tab in Vista
duplicating the menu.

 

[Nancy]

Ignore my last post - I persisted with Google and I believe I have found
your answer. The setting is coming from the HP Advisor toolbar. This is
what I found from Google:

Control Panel>Taskbar>Start Menu>Toolbars - Uncheck HP Advisor.

but that doesn't make sense to me. Try just right-clicking on an empty
area of the Taskbar and then choose Toolbars - slide your cursor over to
the right and uncheck the HP (or Yahoo) entry. Then if HP Advisor shows up
in the Control Panel "Programs & Features" you could uninstall it if you
want. I don't know what else HP Advisor does and you might want to keep
it.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Oh, my gosh. It was something as simple as that?! Boy is my face red. I
can't believe it. I guess my problem all along has been that I was looking
for something relating to Yahoo when in fact it was the HP advisor all this
time. I don't really want to uninstall the advisor since I do think it
might be helpful. (The jury is out on that yet.) However I hated that
invasive search bar on the bottom. I put all my shortcuts along the taskbar
so I don't have them on my desktop. Keeps the desktop uncluttered that way.

I see both of your methods work. I wonder though if it will come back once
I reboot.

I want to thank you in abundance! I know it was a little thing in the
scheme of life but it was just bugging me!

Nancy

 

[CanaKiwi]

You could re-size it if it is too big

Oh, my gosh. It was something as simple as that?! Boy is my face red. I
can't believe it. I guess my problem all along has been that I was
looking for something relating to Yahoo when in fact it was the HP advisor
all this time. I don't really want to uninstall the advisor since I do
think it might be helpful. (The jury is out on that yet.) However I
hated that invasive search bar on the bottom. I put all my shortcuts
along the taskbar so I don't have them on my desktop. Keeps the desktop
uncluttered that way.

I see both of your methods work. I wonder though if it will come back
once I reboot.

I want to thank you in abundance! I know it was a little thing in the
scheme of life but it was just bugging me!

Nancy

 

[Idiotfool]

Try this: right click on the start button (I dunno what it's called in XP) go to the properties area, click the Toolbar tab, and uncheck HP advisor. Worked for me...