Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Steps To Remove Ask Toolbar From Your System

The Ask toolbar can be considered as an onscreen application that represents the Ask website. While browsing, when a user clicks on this toolbar, they would be directed to the Ask website, which would provide the search results for the query that the user was looking for. Hence, the toolbar is meant to provide a convenient and user-friendly browsing experience to the users.
However, sometimes the Ask toolbar may try to replace your browser’s default home page. In such cases it is better to uninstall it. If you are looking at how to remove Ask toolbar, you can check the following instructions.

Mozilla Firefox
  • Here, you need to type about:config in the URL box, and then click on the “I'll be careful, I promise”.option 
  • Now, go to the top Filter box, and type in keyword.URL.
  • You would get only one result here. Now, right-click on it, and then click on the Reset option.
Google Chrome:
  • If you want to remove Ask toolbar from Google Chrome, you need to go to the Wrench icon followed by Settings, On Startup and then click on the Set pages option next to the radio button. You would be able to open a set of pages followed by removing any unwanted URLs. You would see an X appearing on the right side of the URL.
  • If you want to remove Ask toolbar from your omnibox search, you can click the Wrench icon, then Settings, followed by Search and then Manage search engines. You can check the list of Default search engines and other search engines that are added by extensions. Here, you can remove the unknown entries.
  • To remove the Ask toolbar from the Extensions list, you need to click on the Wrench icon, Settings and then Extensions. Now, if you can see an Ask extension you can uninstall it.
Internet Explorer
  • If you want to know how to remove Ask toolbar from internet explorer, follow these steps. First, you need to press the Alt key and get the Menu bar.
  • Now, select the Tools option and then click on Internet Options.
  • You need to select General and change your default homepage. Now, click on the Advanced option, and then change the settings.
By following these steps, you would be able to successfully remove the Ask toolbar from your computer. If you have more issues, feel free to contact tech support for assistance.

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