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How to remove Ask Toolbar and its components form all browsers and from your computer

Updated on June 30, 2011

Ask Toolbar is one of the most annoying adware program by the majority of computer programs. This toolbar is installed through many software installations like Nero etc. All these software have included ask toolbar and it installed at those software installation time. If ask toolbar is installed on your computer, then you might face several annoying changes of your computer. The first annoying thing is that the default home page of all your browsers changes to ask home page. This is the most hateful thing for most of the computer users. Moreover, the default search of all of your browsers redirected through ask search. This is really very annoying and disturbing if any user customize their homepage.
In this page you will learn how to remove ask toolbar from your browsers and form your computer.

Annoying ask toolbar is installed at the time of installing Nero software
Annoying ask toolbar is installed at the time of installing Nero software

How to remove ask toolbar from your computer:

Lots of way are available to remove or uninstall ask toolbar form your computer. But I only discuss the easiest way to remove or uninstall ask toolbar from your computer. I discuss the method to uninstall ask toolbar through add/remove programs.

Remove or uninstall ask toolbar of Internet Explorer via Add/remove programs

Remember, Internet Explorer should be closed while you are trying to uninstall or remove ask toolbar from your computer.Follow the following steps to uninstall or remove ask toolbar from your computer:

  1. Click on Start menu and go to Run by clicking Run.
  2. Simply type appwiz.cpl in the run command prompt and click Enter key of your computer keyboard. A new window will be appeared where you find all the installed programs list.
  3. In the installed programs list, find the Ask Toolbar and select it an then click on remove button to remove.

Remove or uninstall ask toolbar of Mozilla Firefox Browser

Follow the following steps to completely remove or uninstall ask toolbar from Mozilla Firefox browser:

  1. Open Firefox browser in your computer.
  2. Click on Tools and you will see a drop down menu. Select Add-ons from the menu items. This will open all the installed tools of Firefox browser.
  3. Now, select the ask toolbar and click on Disable or Uninstall button to disable or uninstall ask toolbar completely.

That's all. By following the above steps you can easily remove Ask Toolbar and all the components of Ask Toolbar form Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and from your computer.

@Written by rancidTaste

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