What is Community Toolbar?

Nowadays there a lot of different toolbar those were created for users for better search process and for fast access to the user accounts in social networks, to music, TV, fresh news, etc. Community Toolbar is one of these helpful programs. But sometimes users don’t like this toolbar because it is not convenient to use or they get used to some other tool bars and there is no need to have this one on their PC. If you have different toolbars installed in your browser, so most likely all this set of toolbar spend CPU of your computer and influence on the performance of your PC.

How is Community Toolbar installed on your PC?

Community Toolbar is common name for different Conduit Toolbars. And they spread as usual – bundled with free downloaders, convertes, zip-archivators, players etc. There is a real necessity for the user to remove Community Toolbar, but like many other toolbars, this one is protected by some other supporting programs. So, that’s why it is so hard to remove toolbars if you don’t know some secret methods. Frankly speaking, there are no secret methods; just there are effective and ineffective ways of programs removal, so we promise to give you only effective ones.

How to remove Community Toolbar from your PC?

If you want to divest your computer of it, you will need to follow these steps. Please follow them carefully, as if you miss something, the Community Toolbar and search will not be completely removed. The program does not contain any uninstall program so the only way is to delete it manually.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Community Toolbar in their database. They also can help you reset browser settings. You can try to use them for removing Community Toolbar.

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Alternative Solution:

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You can try both of these products to remove Community Toolbar

Or uninstall Community Toolbar manually:

Uninstalling from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Community Toolbar.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Community Toolbar and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Community Toolbar, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

After that remove Community Toolbar from your browser.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Type chrome://extensions/.
3. Find Community Toolbar.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove it.
5. Also look for other suspicious extensions.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Type about:addons.
3. Go to Extensions.
4. Choose Community Toolbar.
5. Click Disable or Remove button.
6. If remove button is not available – use one of the antispyware products above.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Community Toolbar.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – use one of the antispyware products above.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Remove following registry entries:

HKLMSOFTWAREConduit
HKCUSoftwareAppDataLow
HKCUSoftwareConduitDistributionEngine
HKCUSoftwarePriceGong
HKCUSoftwareSmartbar

Then remove following files:

UninstallerUI.exe
Alert.dll
TBVerifier.dll
hk64tbDown.dll
hktbDown.dll
ldrtbDown.dll
prxtbDown.dll
tbDown.dll
toolbar.cfg

And these folders

%APPDATA%PriceGong
%LOCAL_APPDATA%Conduit
%LOCAL_APPDATA%CRE
%APPDATA%Conduit
%PROGRAMFILES%Conduit

Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
5. Click Reset browser settings.
6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Go to Help.
3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Internet options.
4. Go to Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Written by Aleksei Abalmasov