Remove mywebsearch search Homepage (Uninstall Guide)

Techexpert

11 years ago

Question

How do i uninstall mywebsearch completely from my computer, i can’t get rid of mywebsearch at all, when i open my internet explorer all of the sudden keeps getting mywebsearch homepage every time, how do you delete mywebsearch from my start page. Please help me to Remove mywebsearch, your help would be appreciated.

Solved Answer

Mywebsearch is an adware, once it is installed it can hijack your all the browsers as per their settings and after that they won’t allow to change them back as default. they can redirect your browser URL to sponsored websites.

You have to be aware about the adwares, they comes into your computer while you installing any free software which you have downloaded from 3rd party website, these types of websites includes adwares in that installation package. In order to remove mywebsearch you have to follow our mentioned steps, please follow below listed steps carefully. if you use them carefully you would be fixed that issue.

Steps

1. Uninstall Mywebsearch.com from Control Panel

Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel and go to Add/Remove Programs(XP) or Program and Features. Now find out the mywebsearch entry then Right click on it and then click on uninstall.

2. To Remove Mywebsearch.com from Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab. Now look into under HOME PAGE Edit Box you got www.mywebsearch.com, replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
Now Restart Internet explorer

Remove from registry

Click on Start and type Run and then type “REGEDIT” in the run box and then hit enter
In the registry editor go to Edit menu and then click on find option, you will get edit box to search any string to registry editor
Type in the find edit box “mywebsearch.com” and click on Find Next
The search result will highlighted that key which have the same string
Edit that key and change the “mywebsearch.com” string to “google.com“
Use F3 key to find Next, Replace all them to “google.com”
Then Restart the internet explorer

Reset Internet Explorer

Open Internet explorer and then go the Tools menu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar), you can also click on gear icon in IE9/IE10 then go to Internet option.
Once you clicked on Internet option you will get an internet option window.
Now you have to click on Advanced tab. then click on Restore Advance Setting button once and then click on RESET button
Now you will get a new popup for confirmation to get it done reset process, Tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button
Now you will appear a popup to complete all the talks, after completion you have to click on close button.

3. To Remove Mywebsearch.com from Mozilla Firefox

Open Mozilla Firefox, Click on Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) then go to Options, after that a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab and then look on the very first section named as Startup. Under Startup you will see a HOME PAGE Edit Box, under this edit box you will see www.mywebsearch.com, please replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
Restart Firefox Browser

Advance Steps

In the Firefox type this command in the address bar “about:config” and then hit enter to open this page
After that you will get a page which is asking for permission to open config page that confirm that please use it carefully so please click on button named as “I’ll be carefully, I promise“.
Now you will a configuration page with search option on the top, so please type “Mywebsearch.com” into search bar, you will get the result.
Replace all the string from “mywebsearch” to “google”
In the search result do double click on the all entries (related to mywebsearch.com) one by one, and change them to “www.google.com”
You can Right click on found results one by one and choose RESET option.

Reset 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

4. To Remove Mywebsearch.com from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on Settings icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), Under this menu find out and click on Settings after clicking on that you will appear a configuration page.
In the same configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on Set Pages, here you will appear the bunch of URL (Set pages), you have to delete all them and enter only one which you want to use as your home page.
In the same configuration page find out the option named as ‘Manage search engines’ click on that, then you will get a page as Default search engine settings, here you will get some bunch of search engines, first of all change your default search engine
Find out the google search engine and move your mouse pointer to their right side, here you will get 2 options.
- 1. Make Default
- 2. Close button “x” to delete the search engine.
Make default your google search engine, and delete all other than, one by one

Change Home page from preferences file

Change home page from “preferences” file , open this file in plain text format (notepad) and change these following entries to default stage.
You can find “preferences” file from below locations.

Windows XP
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Windows 7, 8, Vista
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Default value is:
“homepage”: “http://www.google.com/”,
“homepage_is_newtabpage”: true,

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“
Now Start your Google chrome.

5. To Remove Registry Entries with help of Adwcleaner.exe

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

1. Download AdwCleaner from the below link.

Click Here to Download: Adwcleaner Download Link

2. Run that downloaded file (Adwcleaner.exe)

3. Then you will see a Adwcleaner program and you will 3 button in the bottom, Search, Delete, Uninstall
4. First please click on search (as shown in below screenshot)

4. Once you click on search it will take some time, after that a notepad file will automatically open which is shows that the software found how many adwares. (as shown in below screenshot)

5. Now leave this notepad as it is and click on Delete button on the Adwcleaner program. (as shown in below screenshot)

6. Now after deletion process done, your computer will restart automatically. (as shown in below screenshot)

7. After computer restarted a notepad automatically will appear which is shows you the report of adware deleted or failed. (as shown in below screenshot)