How to get rid of toolbar

[penguinpunk555]

I got it. I don't know what I would do without you guys.

[fire1811]

might want to try rebooting to make sure its still gone

[MarkM]

is you taskbar unlocked or locked? if its locked unlock it(do this by right clicking on it)

and just so we are on the same page you are trying to add a quicklaunch icon correct
which is located right next to the start button?

Yes it was locked and yes a small icon next to the start button...tried unlocking taskbar and still no joy

[fire1811]

are you running xp?

if so when you save it there should be the bar on there right side to select desktop to save it too.

when you saved it to your desktop was the icon of the show desktop?

[MarkM]

I finally got it....the problem was I was trying to drop the file on the taskbar but it is area dependant, so I had to drop it next to the start button...with the toolbar unlocked. I also discovered another way to create the file by doing the steps to create a new shortcut using the wizard and selecting the Desktop and of course that saves to the Desktop as a default and then dropping into the section between the dotted area marks with the taskbar unlocked. thanks for your help...this problem has been driving me nuts for a while now. I don't like to give up with this sort of thing..same as back when I had Win98 and I was trying to get thumbnail views for the folders enabled...that setting was well hidden but i got there in the end, of course I have that view as a default with XP but i don't like to get beat by something real simple...this is an example of that as it was just a case of dropping in the right area.
Oh I also discovered that you must have the shortcut on the desktop to allow the shortcut to work shame I can't reinstate the proper windows one but what the hell I got a working shortcut now

[fire1811]

yeah its a good thing you got it cause i was about to be out of ideas

[K-chan]

*kills toolbar*

I need -help- before I go insane from trying to figure this out. Some how or another, beyond my knowledge of doing so, this browser thing got installed in Internet Explorer. It's called hotsearchbar.com bar and I've done everything from anti-virus scanning, spybot, spywareblaster to ad-aware and -nothing- is working. I even tried going through the regedit to see if I -might- be able to find anything there. I've looked through the googled pages that was suggested in this thread, but so far no luck.

Can anyone help this desperate, nearly insane girl?? Oh and I run WinXP if that helps any. *shrugs*

Any help would be most greatly appreciated.


~ The thankful newbie, K-chan.

[fire1811]

penguinpunk555 which link did you use in google?

[zacbot]

k-chan...have you tryed going into your control panel and looking under add/remove programs?..if you havent look and see if hot bar is under there, this happened to me on my old computer and that was the only was to get rid of it..i hope this helps
ZBristow

[Kuroghost69]

how do i get rid of HotSearchBar.com Bar

Help i have tryed every thing in your list to get rig of HOTSEARCHBAR.COM BAR and it is still there. the only thing i loaded was Msn6.2 and now it is there and it wont go p lease help

[Kuroghost69]

Fixed it

To Get rid of the Toolbar HotSearchBar.Com Bar just down load a programe called (HijackThis) it worked for me when nothing ealse would work

[xmetal2001]

Download Adaware, Spybot Seach and Destroy, and HijackThis and run them in that order...Careful with HijackThis, don't kill something unless you know it is evil.

[fire1811]

please people when you tell someone to get "ad-aware" please put the dash in because there is another program called adaware the has spyware in it