Monday, December 23, 2013

To Remove The WhiteSmoke Toolbar From Chrome

WhiteSmoke is a very popular language application, and the WhiteSmoke toolbar sometimes comes bundled with the application and will be attached to your browser, during the installation. Once it is attached to your browser, the WhiteSmoke toolbar removal is not that easy to remove. The WhiteSmoke toolbar would set the home page for your browser to the WhiteSmoke website, and even change your browser search toolbar.

What are the uses of the WhiteSmoke toolbar?

The WhiteSmoke toolbar indeed has its uses, and had it just been a toolbar, you could have kept it in the browser application. But it is an adware application, which changes the browser settings and takes you to the WhiteSmoke webpage every now and then, while you might be in the middle of some important work online.

If you do not mind these inconveniences, then the WhiteSmoke toolbar can be used for text translation, grammar check and many other language operations. For this, you could easily find many other free add-ons online. So, it is better to get rid of the annoying WhiteSmoke toolbar from your browser.

About the WhiteSmoke toolbar removal

What you need to remember while removing the WhiteSmoke toolbar from the system is to change back the browser settings that the toolbar altered. If you had been using the WhiteSmoke toolbar for any text translations, then those files might still be there in the WhiteSmoke toolbar folder. If any of these are important to you, go to this folder and create a backup before you remove the toolbar.

All the files in the WhiteSmoke toolbar are likely to be deleted along with the application, when you uninstall it. So, once you have backed up these files, open the Google Chrome browser, and go to the Extensions options from the Tools menu. Here, you would find the WhiteSmoke toolbar as one of the add-ons installed in the browser.

Use the Remove button there to get rid of the toolbar from the browser. Now, go to the home page settings section for the browser. There change the home page from the WhiteSmoke to any webpage of your choice. Now, change the search engine toolbar in the browser to Google or Bing. Once you have made all these changes, close the application and restart the system. Check the browser to see if the WhiteSmoke toolbar is indeed removed from your system.

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