How To Get Rid Of Yahoo Toolbar?
Yahoo toolbar provides fast access to your email and other cool things provided by yahoo so it becomes an important tool. But slowdown may occur as this toolbar takes some space in the memory of computer.
New computers can handle yahoo toolbar easily but it becomes difficult for older computers. If you have low memory then you can disable or uninstall this toolbar to free some space. Also your internet speed will become faster but you will be unable to access yahoo services instantly. Some people prefer to disable it rather than uninstalling it. There are different ways to remove yahoo toolbar, either from the browser itself or through the task manager.
Uninstalling Yahoo toolbar
It is easy to uninstall yahoo toolbar as the application is user friendly. You may follow these procedure to uninstall it.
1. Click on start and then click on settings.
2. Open control panel and then click on Add/Remove programs icon.
3. Click on Change or Remove programs. You will see a list of programs that are installed on the system.
4. Click on Yahoo toolbar after searching the list.
5. An uninstall button will appear in a dialog box. Click on it and then click OK.
You may delete other programs too, through the control panel but make sure you don’t delete the important ones.
Disabling Yahoo toolbar via task manager
All the activities and the programs that are running are shown in taskbar. It also shows the memory usage of each program. You can disable yahoo toolbar from taskbar also.
Opening Task manager
The 2 different ways t o open taskbar are:
• The Run method – Click on start and then click on run and type “Taskmgr.exe” in the Run dialog box. Click OK.
• The Control Alt Delete method – Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE button simultaneously. A dialog box will appear, click on task manager.
• The Control Shift Escape method – To open taskbar you may press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC button simultaneously.
By using any of the method Task Manager will open and you can disable Yahoo toolbar from it.
Procedure
1. You will see the list of running processes by clicking on Processes Tab present on Task Manager.
2. Click on Yahoo toolbar.
3. Click on End Process button on lower right portion.
Uninstall/Disable Yahoo toolbar using Internet Browser
Menus are present on your browser to access various functions and to change settings of applications that are present on browser. You can also use these menus to disable Yahoo toolbar.
Procedure:
• Open your browser.
• Click on tools present in menu bar.
• Click on Add-ons (Mozilla Firefox) or Manage Add-ons (Internet Explorer). All the add-ons will appear.
• Click on Yahoo toolbar. It will be highlighted.
• In case of Firefox, you will see that there is a choice of removing or disabling the toolbar. You may disable or uninstall it by clicking on corresponding button.
• For Internet Explorer users, you will see settings box. You can disable the toolbar by selecting corresponding circle beside disable. Then click OK.
Reinstalling Yahoo toolbar
You may want to reinstall Yahoo toolbar again. So you can download it for free from Yahoo’s website.
Procedure:
• Open your browser.
• Type toolbar.yahoo.com on the address bar and then press Enter. Yahoo toolbar’s website will open in few seconds.
• You can download Yahoo toolbar from the link provided on the website. Make sure your computer and browser meets minimum requirements of Yahoo toolbar. If not, then you may need to upgrade your system or browser as per the requirement.
Email Yahoo if there is any problem:
Although you will not face any kind of problem in uninstalling, disabling or reinstalling yahoo toolbar as it is easy but still if there is any kind of problem, you may email Yahoo for a suitable solution. You can email Yahoo by following the mentioned link: help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/my/forms_index.html.
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