How to Remove Television Fanatic toolbar (Uninstall Help)

Techexpert

10 years ago

Question.

How Remove Television Fanatic toolbar from Internet Explorer ?

Solved Answer.

Television Fanatic toolbar is a dangerous browser hijacker and computer infection. It comes into your computer without your permission. The toolbar also offers access to other media services such as games and online radio. It can control your all popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google. Chrome, Safari etc.

Once it is installed into your computer, you can be found lots of changes in your internet and browser settings like change your browser homepage to home.tb.ask.com and default search engine to search.tb.ask.com. Your computer and internet speed become very slow than before. Many unwanted advertising & pop ups are appearance on your computer screen with your search result. Lots of unfamiliar plugins are installed with your web browsers without your permission. Television Fanatic toolbar may be damaged your browser.

Television Fanatic toolbar installed into your computer via free software packages or when you click on some suspicious links, So you should pay attention, when you download a freeware from internet. Be very careful what you agree to install. You should download any software from their official website.

Television Fanatic toolbar is not a virus in technical terms, however it’s categorized as a browser hijacker (Adware), “PUP” (Unwanted programs). Because anyone never wants to install Television Fanatic toolbar directly, usually it installs additionally with another software packages. However, it may also enter computer in a bundle with freeware and shareware.

So you should immediately remove Television Fanatic toolbar from your computer, otherwise you may be lost web browser. In order to remove this Television Fanatic toolbar from your computer, you have to follow article steps very carefully.

Television Fanatic toolbar Removal Instructions

Step 1 : To Uninstall Television Fanatic toolbar from computer

Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel.
Now click on Programs –> Program and Features –> Uninstall a program (Wind7, 8, Vista).

For Windows XP users click on Add/Remove Programs.

You will get a window which have listed all the installed programs.
Uninstall the programs, if you find any, from below list (Suspicious Programs list). Because all these programs are unwanted. You should uninstall all them immediately.

Suspicious Programs list

Television Fanatic toolbar
Browser defender
Browser protect
Browser protected by conduit
Delta search, Babylon
LessTabs
WebCake 3.0
Yealt
LyricsContainer
VideoSaver
AddLyrics
privacy safe gaurd
unfriend checker
Price peep today
Coupon amazine
TidyNetwork.com
DownloadTerms 1.0
Yontoo
Uninstall all the unwanted programs, which are not listed here.

Automatic Fixit

Download Adware Remover Tool v3.6 to remove Television Fanatic toolbar Automatically from all of you browsers, This is a Freeware utility specially deigned for Adware Removal. This tool can remove adware from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla Firefox and their registry as well..

Adware-Removal-Tool-v3.6.exe

Step 2 : To Remove Television Fanatic toolbar from Internet Explorer

Reset Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (If tools menu doesn’t appear then press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet option window will open.
For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon . Then click on tools.

Click on Advanced tab, then click on RESET button.
Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that. (As shown on below screenshot)

Now you will appear a popup says that complete all the tasks. After completion click on close button.

Step 3 : To Remove Television Fanatic toolbar from Mozilla Firefox

Reset Mozilla Firefox

Open “Troubleshooting information” page into Firefox.
Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar)
Note: you can also open this page in this ways, open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) and then hit enter or OK.
Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”
You will get a page “Troubleshooting information”, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
Click on Reset Firefox option, It will take time to reset

Step 4 : To Remove Television Fanatic toolbar from Google Chrome

Remove unwanted homepage & search engine from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on their Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.

In the same configuration page click on Manage search engines button. Delete all the search engines from there, just keep only www.goole.com as your default search Engine.

Remove unwanted extensions from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions. (As shown on below screenshot)

You will get a configuration page. which have installed all the extensions, Remove Television Fanatic toolbar extension & also remove all the unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon (as shown on screenshot)

Reset Google Chrome

Close all Google Chrome browser
Now open this following path
- Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) , then you will get Run box.
- Copy and Paste this following command in this Run box then hit Enter or OK
- Windows XP
  %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
- Windows 7, 8, Vista
  %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
In the default folder please find a file named as “Preferences“ and now just need to rename this file from “Preferences“ to “Preferences.old“
In the same default folder please find a one more file named as “Web Data“ and now just need to rename this file from “Web Data“ to “Web Data.old“
Now Start your Google chrome.

Step 5 : To remove Television Fanatic toolbar registry entries with Adwcleaner.exe

Here is the proper step-by-step guide to remove any adware from registry, please follow the steps.

5.1 : Download AdwCleaner from the below link.

Click Here to Download: Adwcleaner.exe

5.2 : Run that downloaded file (Adwcleaner.exe).

5.3 : When you get it started, click on scan button to search the Television Fanatic toolbar files and registry entries (As shown below screenshot).

5.5 : When scanning process will be finished, click on Clean button to delete all the Television Fanatic toolbar files and registry entries (as shown on below screenshot)