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Remove “Orphan” Internet Explorer Toolbars
By Neil J. Rubenking
I downloaded and installed the program Download Accelerator Plus. I used it for a few weeks, then I uninstalled DAP and its toolbar. I thought I had completely uninstalled them, but the toolbar name still shows up when I click on View | Toolbars. Is there any way that I can delete the name so it won’t show up next time?
Edward Chen
It’s unfortunate that DAP’s uninstall routine didn’t completely clean things up, as manually removing the remnants will be a bit tedious. Launch REGEDIT from the Start menu’s Run dialog and navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Internet Explorer \Toolbar\WebBrowser. You should find at least one value in the right-hand pane with a name that’s a GUID—a bunch of letters and digits between curly brackets, like {2318C2B1-4965-11D4-9B18-009027A5CD4F}. One such value represents the absent toolbar, but to find out which one, we’ll have to look elsewhere.
Work through the list of GUID-named values from the bottom, as the top ones usually represent IE’s own toolbars. Navigate to the subkey of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID whose name is the same as the name of the value; for example, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2318C2B1-4965-11D4-9B18-009027A5CD4F}. Check the (Default) value in the right-hand pane to see which toolbar it represents. The example shown here is the Google toolbar.
When you’ve identified which one corresponds to the absent DAP toolbar, right-click on it, choose Rename, and prefix the name with a period. That’s safer than deleting the key; if you make a mistake, you can restore its name. Back in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ …\WebBrowser key, rename the corresponding value in the same way. After you’ve verified that the unwanted entry in the toolbar list is gone, you can go back and delete the key and value that you renamed.
Note that in Windows XP Service Pack 2, due sometime in the first half of 2004, Internet Options will include a dialog for managing add-ons such as toolbars and Browser Helper Objects. We anticipate that it will make solving problems like this one much easier.
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Sarah’s Windows Tweak: Lock Down IE History
Prevent anyone from clearing Internet Explorer’s History.By Sarah Lane
Trust is very important, but nobody has much of it when it comes to computers. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked through IE’s history after someone (friends, co-workers, strangers at the public library) used my computer. We nosy folks just wanna know, right?
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how to clear IE’s History so the next person on your computer can’t see where you surfed (or to at least make it harder for them to find out). So on tonight’s ‘Savers I’ll show you how to disable the option to erase the history and prevent Mr. Sneak from covering his trail to Whitehouse.com.
Once again I’ll dip into the Registry with this tip. And since changes to the Registry are permanent, back it up before you make any changes in case you need to restore the Registry later.
Open the Registry Editor.
Navigate to the following string:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
If you get to the Microsoft key folder and don’t see keys for Internet Explorer\Control Panel, you’ll need to add Internet Explorer as a subkey of Microsoft and Control Panel as a subkey of Internet Explorer.
Go into the Control Panel key folder and create a new DWORD value (REG_DWORD). Name it History. Right-click the History value and choose Modify. Change the data from 0 to 1.
Immediately, your “Clear History” options will become grayed out in your IE Tool menu. When you open the History menu, you’ll no longer see an option to delete selected URLs by right-clicking them. If the tweak isn’t working for you, close and relaunch any instance of IE you have running.
I know this tweak will annoy some of you, but it’ll relieve others. Although I do think enabling it could rob folks of their surfing privacy, I also know it can really come in handy. Concerned parents come to mind. And at the very least, maybe some of you will check to make sure you can wipe your History before you use a shared system to go online.
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