How to keep unwanted toolbars out of your browser? Although this is what we are going to discuss in this blog, believe me, toolbars are not as bad as the world envisions them. Initially developed as a tiny piece of software to help users, toolbars happily stayed on the browser top offering one-click access to multiple sites and software to its users. Even today, organizations hire Toolbar developers to engage in custom Toolbar development, enabling boosted enterprise performance and brand building. However, a set of negative minded individuals imposed these toolbars on users, leaving them with no option to uninstall. These toolbars track user’s browser history and enables its owners to practice wrong activities such as data theft, recording key-press activities and so on.  This encouraged us to write this piece of blog to rescue you from unwanted toolbars.

Where does these toolbars come from? Most of them are allowed by us. When using freeware or shareware programs. We often want to skip through the process, check a few checkboxes and get the software installed without noticing that one of the checkboxes is asking you whether or not you want to install a toolbar. Honestly, there are no good ways to uninstall these toolbar.  Being alert is the best solution. However, if you have still installed one by mistake, simply right click on the toolbar and click on “Disable”.  If this doesn’t work for you, go to “Tools” and click on “Manage Add-ons”, here you will be given an option to disable the toolbar. Most of the rigid toolbars do not leave the space unless you uninstall a particular program or reinstall the browsing software. Post the advanced solutions that you know for getting rid of unwanted toolbars.