Procedure To Remove The AVG Tool Bar

Many useful toolbars are installed on the browsers within the scope and context of Internet access and search functions. There are many famous toolbars like the Yahoo toolbar, Google toolbar etc which really help in reducing the time required for searching for items on the internet. These toolbar save the time required for actually visiting the search engine website and then entering a query. However, there are certain toolbars that are more malicious or annoying than actually useful - Search here, Ask toolbar etc. Many other toolbars monitor the safety of the websites. This could actually be useful.

AVG is an anti-virus software producing company that even offers free anti-virus programs which are quite effective. One such free program or toolbar offered by the anti-virus giant is the AVG-toolbar. This is actually a free security program included with the latest versions of the AVG software. This program is usually installed on the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, for monitoring the safety of the websites that you search through or visit on the Internet. In case you have an AVG Toolbar installed on your Windows computer, either accidentally or deliberately, you can remove AVG toolbar by following the below mentioned steps.

Instructions to remove AVG toolbar or permanently disable it

• Initially, you need to open Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, they way you usually do.

• After that, you need to scroll to the upper right-hand section of the browser and then locate the Tools section in the IE or View section in Mozilla Firefox. Then you need right-click on the section, and scroll down the menu using the Toolbars option.

• After that, you can right click on AVG Toolbar and then select the Disable option for temporarily removing the toolbar from the browser.

Permanently Uninstalling the Toolbar

• Initially, you need to close all open Web browsers and programs.

• After that, you can click on the Start menu for gaining access to the Control Panel button.

• Then you need to wait for the Control Panel to open, then select Add or Remove Programs or Uninstall a Program from the available list of options.

• Then, you need to locate AVG on the list of programs, and then click on Remove or Uninstall to remove the software.
• Subsequently, you can confirm that you want to remove the software, and then wait for notification that the software has been completely removed. After that, you can restart your computer.

You can now re-install the AVG software. However, when you are prompted to install the toolbar, you can make sure the box is unchecked before proceeding. Actually, doing this allows the software to be installed without the toolbar.