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computer help!
hey...
anyone who's good with computers...
everytime i switch my homepage it just keeps going back to the old one..how do i change this..and also..there is this toolbar on my main desktop and i dont know how to get rid of it. HELP!!
thanks in advance=)
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You click Tools at the top of the internet screen, then go to Internet options. Where it says "Address" type in the homepage you want. Then click OK and refresh the page. It should work. On the toolbar, there should be something that says Exit or along the lines of that, if not..then i'm not sure. Hope this helps.
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Download, install, update, and run these two programs.
Ad-Aware
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Spybot S&D
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These are anti-adware and anti-spyware respectively. If you run both, it should fix most of your problems, except if you're in a very bad situation. Also, I wouldn't recommend running Hijack This to start, because it's not as user friendly and does not filter out critical system resources, so you might actually delete something you don't want to. Another alternative is if you know what malware is annoying you, try googling it and doing some research. There are quite a few sites explaining step by step how to remove them.
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you have a browser hijacker, its Ad-ware (which is part of the Mal-ware catigory) You need a program called "Hijack this" and Lavasoft (USA) does a program called "Adaware" that will help but the first program I mentioned should do the trick.
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you have a virus, spyware or add ware (most likely the later 2)....anyway one way to fix this is going into the registry and editing it. Dont do it if you dont know what your doing. My other option for you is to go to downloads.com and download addaware or spysweeper or something like that. Lastly i would say go to downloads.com and download(free trial) Registry Medic and play around with it(options and optimize IE)
If you need more assistance leave me a message.
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Tool bar could be a result of adware of spyware. Save your homepage setting. If it keeps changing to odd homepages you didn't set, it is probably adware of spyware, too.
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the toolbar -- sometimes you can go into your programs and it will have what you can delete someties toolbars are on there if its on there press delete! if its not then open up internet explorer click 'view' uptop then 'toolbars' then uncheck it on the list.
i hope i helped!
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♥ Jess
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