How to Uninstall Inbox/Inbox Toolbar Thoroughly

Inbox is a toolbar which can be install in browsers like Internet Explore or Mozilla Firefox, it allows users to search the web and access to the recourse they want with a more convenient way. But the truth is, the trouble inbox toolbar provides is much more bigger than the convenience it can offer, it bundled with a dozen of freeware most of them is useless, and also, inbox toolbar is kind of a stubborn program which is hard to be removed completely, this troubles many computer users. If your computer has inbox toolbar installed and you want to get rid of it completely, simply follow the below instruction.

Uninstall inbox toolbar by using professional uninstaller

Though inbox toolbar provides uninstall option, it won’t remove all the components inside your computer, there are always files and registry data are left behind, to completely remove inbox toolbar once for all, we recommend using Max Uninstaller, which is a special designed uninstaller to remove stubborn programs like inbox toolbar thoroughly from users’ computer. It is much safer and easier than the regular uninstall measures.

Video demonstration of how to remove inbox toolbar by Max Uninstaller

Removal steps:

• Download Max Uninstaller, open it after the installation.
• Launch MU by double clicking the desktop icon.
• Select inbox toolbar in program list and click ‘Run Analysis’ button.
• After the components analysis, click ‘Complete Uninstall’to start the standard removal.
• Close the pop-up website once the standard removal is finished.
• Click ‘Scan Leftovers’ button to conduct a full scan on your computer for leftovers of inbox toolbar.
• Click ‘Delete Leftovers’and Max Uninstaller remove all the leftovers it found.
• Click OK in the pop-up message to finish the removal.

Note: If you installed the program bundled with inbox toolbar, you can find them listed in Max Uninstaller main panel, simply repeat the above steps to remove them all completely.

Uninstall inbox toolbar manually

With proper steps, inbox toolbar can also be uninstalled completely without help from professional tool, but the process is more complicated as it involves using registry editor, so it is not recommended for average users. Anyway, you can do the removal by following the below steps:

Part 1: Uninstall inbox toolbar from Add/Remove

• First please make sure the browser on your computer has been closed.
• Now right click on the icon at system tray, click Exit in the appeared menu.

• Click Start button, and go to Control Panel, click Add/Remove program in the Control Panel.

• Locate and select inbox toolbar in the list of Add/Remove program.
• Click Remove button on the right side.

• Click Yes in the pop-up message to continue.

• Wait for a few seconds to complete the removal process.
• If everything went find, you will receive a message telling you that “inbox toolbars was successfully removed from your computer. Click yes.

Part 2: Remove inbox toolbar leftovers

• Click Start button again, and then select Run.
• Type in regedit in the run box, and click OK to open registry editor.

• Before you start to remove leftovers, go to File menu in the registry editor, and click Export to create a registry backup in case any mistaken operation.
• Now navigate the registry branch tree, find out the registry files of inbox toolbars which mentioned in the below list, and then delete them all.

• After you finish the deletion, close registry editor and reboot your computer once.

Note: If you delete a wrong registry entry/key, you can restore it by using the backup file you just created. However you should keep in mind that there are some very important registry data files which should not be touched in any circumstance, or your computer will face irreversible damage. So even you had backup the registry well enough, you should still be careful about any registry operation you are about to do.

Part 3: Reset the default search and homepage

One of the annoying thing of inbox toolbar is that, it will change your browser default search and homepage. I bet the people who want to uninstall inbox toolbar also want to reset their browser setting to previous status, well, here is how:

• To reset the default search in FireFox
• Type “about:config” into the address bar and click “Enter”.
• Then click the “I’ll be careful, I promise” button.
• Type “keyword.URL” into the search box that appear.
• Right click on the “keyword.URL” entry and click “Modify”.
• Enter the search engine in the address bar from which you would like to search.

To reset search bar default in FireFox, please follow these steps:

• Click the logo icon on the right within the search bar.
• Choose the search provider you wish to set as your default.

To reset the homepage of FireFox:

• Go to “Tool” then select “Options”
• In the General tab in the Startup section do one of the following:
• To set the current webpage as the homepage, click “Use current page”. This selection will change the previously set homepage to the one currently being visited.
• To select a homepage from your bookmark, click “Use Bookmark”, and select the desired page.
• To reset the homepage, click “Restore to Default”, this selection restores the default homepage to the browser.
• Click “OK”.