Add ons I want to remove?

For XP it's Start>Control panel>add/remove programs. Uninstall toolbars from there.

These often come bundled with a download as an extra. The tip is to untick the toolbar option when agreeing to the download terms etcConsider Ccleaner as a great way to clean, manage and control all these things. http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner

Control panel>programs and features>remove all the tools bars. They are a waste of time.

Maintaining your computer

1. Left click on C drive> properties/run windows disc cleaner

2. Download Ccleaner from here: http://www.filehippo.com/

3. Install Ccleaner and run the cleaner top left, then run the registry cleaner below it on the left. you don’t need to backup the registry

4. Left click on C drive> properties>Tools>disc scanner or in the case of Vista it’s called something else, but it’s the top tab you click on> Prompt the scanner to scan upon next reboot and REBOOT COMPUTER)

#(Prepare to wait up to an hour)#

5. After Disk scan/Disk check has finished run windows Disc Cleaner again, Ccleaner again and registry cleaner again.

6. Then you must do a DEFRAGMENTAION of C drive which is START>ALL PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>TOOLS>DEFRAGMENTATION.

Additional options:

You can also run adware 2008: http://www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php

Spybot Search & Destroy http://searchdestroydownload.com/?gclid=CMD-_4L01p...

AVG Anti-virus: http://free.avg.com/download

Download and install this browser: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Flash blocker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...

Script blocker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...

supper add blocker plus. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...

This is the flash player for fire fox http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Choose the one for windows explorer http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/...

i anticipate u intend to do away with ur cyber web browser upload-ons. properly, if u r utilising cyber web explorer, bypass to - kit>take care of upload-ons>enable or disable upload-ons - and do away with the undesirable upload-ons from the record. if u r utilising a mozilla center browser like firefox, netscape navigator, flock etc, bypass to - kit>upload-ons and disable those u dont choose. i'm not very specific approximately opera, yet u can locate the record of put in plugins under kit>progressed>Plug-Ins.