How to remove Bing toolbar?

[thefabe]

I've already have enough toolbars and search engines. I certainly don't need to have Bing. Can anyone tell me how or if this can be removed? Thanks in advanced

 

[Captain Zero]

It should be in your Add/Remove programs but if it's not, we'll presume you're using IE8 and go from there so we can at least disable it.

1 - Enable IE8's toolbar. To do that, right click on IE8's toolbar and enable 'Menu Bar'.
2 - Go to the 'Tools' menu and select 'Manage Add-ons'.
3 - Select/Hightlight BING Tool bar and click on 'Disable', in the lower right.

Close, re-start IE8 and you should be all set.

 

[Wii Master 64]

if you don't want to go to the trouble of reactivating the menu bar, then just hit the 'alt' key.

 

[thefabe]

Removed it with ccleaner under msn toolbar. But thank you for your support.

 

[Dinesh]

or simply go to control panel>programs and features>uninstall bing toolbar.

 

[higganator]

bing tab!

Look at your internet options, where you set your home page! You will see two url's. Remove the (bing!) and that should clear up your tabs.
Go to tools, manage add ons, and disable bing tool bar.
But as for removeing bing I am not sure yet.
I think it came from optimize IE8.
It is a great search engine if you just learn how it works.

 

[scourge]

After upgrading to IE8, the Bing toolbar / search bar and some ubiquitous accelerator icons started to drive me insane.

Bing, Windows Live, or anything else that I’ve seen suggested for removal, didn’t appear in the Add/Remove Programs of my Control Panel, and going to the IE8 Tools Menu and going to Manage Add-Ons let me choose to disable Bing (but not remove it), but the Bing search bar remained, undaunted. I also tried to modify my hosts file as a desperate last-ditch effort suggested on another tech site, but I couldn’t save the revised file with Notepad for some reason so that didn’t work either.

It turns out that IE8 won’t let you Remove the Bing Search Engine in the IE8 Tools à Manage Add-Ons àSearch Providers screen, if it’s the only Search Provider you have. So I had to install the Google Toolbar, then make that the default in the Search Providers window, which activated the Remove option for Bing, which I did, gladly. Then I uninstalled the Google Toolbar, but the annoying Search Bar remained, now set to Google instead of Bing.

That’s when I found a post by Geek which instructs you how to turn off the IE8 search bar, which is currently a default setting, and I finally got rid of the annoying search bar: [link removed]

Weird distracting little icons still haunted IE8 though, so I went to IE8’s Tools à Manage Add-Ons à Accelerators and disabled everything there, and those annoying icons that kept popping up all over the place went away for good.

Finally I’ve got my browser the way I like it =)

 

[novatgirl]

Real solution for remove bing from your system

Bing is very sticky, it is an add on, not a program installed in your computer like others.

For remove bing from ie8, go to tools/ add ons and remove Bing.

If you are using firefox, Bing keeps or hack-crakcs your seetings from ie8, you must unistall the bing from Internet explorer first, then unistall it from firefox, once you remove the add-on, still will be sticky in your "searches", the solution is unistall firefox and then install it again.

Before install firefox again, make sure is removed from internet explorer, otherwise, bing will try to hack -crack in your firefox instalation again.

For make sure bing has been removed, open ie8 and search something, if the search is from the bing home page, then still you have bing in your system, do not install firefox until you remove it from ie8.

I did it and is the only solution!!!!!

 

[TheGuru]

Also Remove From Program Files

I ran up against this, tried everything mentioned, but no go. Bing, MSN, any Toolbar for that mater, none were listed under installed programs. I had to manually kill all related files under C:\Program Files\MSN Toolbar. One of the files was even active with no browsers open, or browser processes running. Killed the process, deleted the folder, and walla, no more Bing. FYI... Inside that folder was a Firefox folder, the cause of my Bing Toolbar Add-On.

 

[dreemsnake]

Scourge is the only one who has the same situation I have and I thought I was going to get the solution. But it was removed! He wrote, "That’s when I found a post by Geek which instructs you how to turn off the IE8 search bar, which is currently a default setting, and I finally got rid of the annoying search bar: [link removed]." Why was the link removed? We can't include links in our posts? Whatever was removed was the information I need.

All the other suggestions here do not apply in my situation. When I did an internet search on how to turn off the IE8 search bar, nothing useful comes up.

 

[andikeep2580]

probably late but try this, worked for me

How to Disable, Remove or Hide IE8 Search Box » My Digital Life

 

[dukestango]

Try removing Fake Bing toolbar such as "Search Toolbar 1.1"

One day I suddenly got this stupid Bing toolbar. I went to my control panel and checked Add/Remove Programs. I tried searching for Bing toolbar and could not find any. Also there was no list of Bing or any other toolbar when I click on View>> Toolbar list. After some thought I checked each and every program names listed under my control panel >> Add/Remove Programs option.
I found something called "Search Toolbar 1.1" and immediately went ahead to remove it. That work for me.
The Bing Toolbar is gone!!!
Beware of such fake Bing Toolbars!

 

[TheGuru]

Mystery Bing Bar...

I found that my bing bar was installed by "Windows7Codec". Both without my consent, or knownledge. Its part of a developer tools package, and with UAC off, you'll recieve no notice of its install.

The registry keys at the following link have kept bing away. I'd give it a go if your as sick of bing as I am. "So BingBar installs automatically now?"

 

[DuLee]

"Search Bing for ..."

I have a related question which I hope is appropriate to post in this thread.

Firefox v. 3.6.11 and IE8 (64bit).

When highlighting text on a web page and then right-clicking (in both Firefox and IE) my option use to say “Search Google for…” Now the option is “Search Bing for…” I don’t totally hate the Bing search results but I’d like to know how/why this happened.

I did two installs/upgrades yesterday. Microsoft’s “important” Live Essentials 2011 and AVG’s Free Edition 2011. I do not know which of these two installs (if either) changed my ‘search with’ option. During all installs I always, always uncheck any options to install Bing or Yahoo toolbars, etc. I have nothing Bing or Bing related in my list of installed programs. I did allow AVG to install its toolbar.

BTW, I subsequently uninstalled every part of Live Essentials 2011 I could find. I, and it seems many others, hate the new Windows Live Mail look. Now, of course, Windows Update continues to remind me there is one “important” update to install. Any way to turn that nag off as I do not find Live Essentials 2011 essential?!?

 

[DuLee]

Found: Bing fix

No sooner had I made my post than I found my fix -- or at least one of my fixes!

Posting the link in the event it may help others. Note: this applies to Firefox only.

How to Remove Bing as Your Default Search Engine and Get Firefox to Work the Way it Used to | eHow.com

Following the (first part of the) directions I changed the Value at browser.search.selectedEngine from Bing to Google. It worked (Firefox) but I still don't know how to make the same change in IE.

 

[SEA]

Look at your internet options, where you set your home page! You will see two url's. Remove the (bing!) and that should clear up your tabs.

What???? :huh:

Nothing there

 

[SEA]

I went to IE8’s Tools à Manage Add-Ons à Accelerators and disabled everything there, and those annoying icons that kept popping up all over the place went away for good.

Just did that. Bing is still there!

Now what?

 

[SEA]

After some thought I checked each and every program names listed under my control panel >> Add/Remove Programs option.
I found something called "Search Toolbar 1.1" and immediately went ahead to remove it. That work for me.
The Bing Toolbar is gone!!!

Couldn't find "Search Toolbar 1.1"

Can you be no specific?

 

[SEA]

Bing keeps or hack-crakcs your seetings from ie8, you must unistall the bing from Internet explorer first, then unistall it from firefox, once you remove the add-on, still will be sticky in your "searches", the solution is unistall firefox and then install it again.

And could you please give us step-by-step instructions on just how to do that?

Thanks!

 

[cmfurgason]

Bing Bar Removal

I, too, had this problem, though I am using IE8 my answer is still good for those of you using Firefox.

I'm running Win7 Home Prem. and I had removed Bing as the Search Provider in IE, and then went to Programs & Features (old Add/Remove Programs) and saw Bing Bar listed there. I clicked on it and then clicked on Uninstall and it took me to another page where I was offered to uninstall it by clicking on Continue. When I clicked on Continue, I received a message that I should close all browsers. There were no browsers open; so, like some other reports on this dilemma, Bing seems to have an opened file making it seem as if there is an opened browser.

My solution was this - and please don't leave this step out. You may have to go back and Import the registry file in case you delete the wrong key. Go to the Start Button and type regedit in the Search window just above the Start Button and hit return. When the window opens the Registry, go to File and in the pulldown click on Export. This gives you a chance to save the existing Registry file before you progress to the next action. It defaults a location in My Documents and wants you to assign a file name. I gave it: Registry 3-20-2011 (don't use forward slashes to separate mm-dd-yyyy - use hyphens).

After the Registry has been saved, click on the top folder in the Registry which is Computer to highlight it, and click on Edit and then Find. Type in: Bing Bar in the search window there and click on Find Next.

Each time it finds a hit, use the Delete Key on your keyboard to delete the Registry Key in the left pane. Hit F3 to find the next occurence deleting the Keys each time.

After it has searched the entire Registry, you'll get a message to the effect that the search is complete. At that point, it is safe to close the Registry.

There is one remaining step. You have to manually delete the folder under C:/Program Files/Bing Bar Installer in Windows Explorer. When you click on this folder you'll notice several sub-folders, but don't have to delete them individually. Delete the main folder and your work is done.

Don't be timid if you've never worked in the Registry, but then don't get over confident and mess up, either.