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Removing Bing Toolbar Added By Skipscreen

Monday, February 1st, 2010

I just installed Skipscreen, and the motherfuckers who created it have it install the Bing Toolbar without any warning whatsoever, they also hijacked my homepage and added Bing as my default search engine in the upper right search box in Firefox. I’m surprised they didn’t change my default browser settings so IE would be my default browser!
I installed it on the recommendation of a friend, and then when it prompted me to restart Firefox, I did…then I saw the Bing Toolbar and thought WTF!!!
They know you’re not going to want to keep it, so they disabled right click and gave it the name Search 1.04 or some BS like that so it would be harder to find! It’s also not in the uninstall programs section of your control panel.

Anyway, here’s what you do to remove it”

  • Go to Start=>>Computer=>>Double click your hard drive on that screen…it most likely has the letter “C”=>> Program Files =>> and then look for Search Bar, or Search 1.04, I can’t remember…delete that folder. This is what I did, you may want to just go to step 2 first and see if that works. I just deleted that folder because I hate when the scumbags install a bunch of crap on your machine!
  • Open Firefox, Go to Tools=>> Add-ons=>> Scroll down until you see Search 1.04 or whatever number, it may say Search Toolbar, powered by Bing, select it and then click uninstall.

If you like Bing and want the toolbar, then you’re good to go…but if you’re like everyone else, you’ll be pissed because Skipscreen did it without asking…I would avoid installing Skipscreen, unless you really need it because you download a lot of things online.
Why the makers of Skipscreen would hook up with Bing is beyond me…All Bing is, is MSN with a face-lift! They still suck, their search results are just as jacked as before…it just shows you how desperate Microsoft, like Yahoo is, that they’ll allow people to add an automatic installation of their toolbar with out ever giving the option to not install. The same thing happened when I installed Skype…only with them, it was that damn eBay highlighter. I also wrote how to uninstall that here: Removing ebay Browser highlighter

I uninstalled Skipscreen, because I don’t download a lot, and I don’t need JUNK on my machine! The makers of Slipscreen can kiss my fat ass!!

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