How to Correctly Remove Gaming Wonderland Toolbar

If one day you open your web browser, and unexpectedly find Gaming Wonderland Toolbar there with another unfamiliar search engine right below your default one, don’t get too surprised, it just successfully sneaked into your computer through some installation tricks.

With this “companion”, you may have noticed there are many advertisements, coupons, and sponsored links in your search results, but you may not notice at the meantime search terms are being collecting from your search queries. And every time you open a new tab page, it compulsorily exhibits its homepage home.tb.ask.com, which is very annoying.

So during the daily use, you need to pay attention to what you are going to install, and what site you are going to visit, because sometimes the plug-in could directly get onto your PC via your visit. Examples of download sites include Brothersoft, Softonic, and CNET, on which the plug-in always be bundled with those PDF creators, video recording/streaming, or download-managers.

Take a tour here for proper instructions to uninstall Gaming Wonderland Toolbar if you have been infected by this “virus”.

Manual Guides to Remove Gaming Wonderland Toolbar

1. Remove the plug-in fromControl Panel

The plug-in may include several programs, such as Gaming Wonderland Toolbar Chrome Extension, Gaming Wonderland Toolbar Firefox Toolbar, Gaming Wonderland Toolbar Internet Explorer Toolbar, etc. They are all those you need to delete from your computer. Steps are as follows:

(1) How to access Control Panel?

Windows 8 user: two choices: (i) hover your mouse pointer at the lower right corner → Select “Search” → type in “control panel” → press “Enter” key → click on “Uninstall a program” under the Programs section;

(ii) Double-click “This PC” on desktop → click on “Open Control Panel” → click “Uninstall a program” under the Programs section;

Windows 7 user: click the “Start” button at the lower left corner → select “Control Panel” → click on “Uninstall a program” under the Programs section;

(2) You can see all the programs being listed in “Add/uninstall a program” on the pop-up window.

Scroll through the list, if you find Gaming Wonderland Toolbar, or any of those above-mentioned programs in the list, it is definitely the target you need to hit;

Double-click it to activate its uninstaller program. After clicking a few “Next”s and a “finish” button, the plug-in shall be gone.

2. Uninstall Gaming Wonderland Toolbar from web browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer).

In some cases, after you visit a website, the plug-in can be automatically added to your web browser without taking an installation package, which means you may not notice until the next time you open the browser.

If so, you will not able to track it in the program list of Control Panel. To correctly remove it, you need to manually restore your web browser’s setting (undo the unwanted changes).

I am hereby respectively giving specific methods for removing Gaming Wonderland Toolbar from three widely-used browsers.

Remove Gaming Wonderland Toolbar from Mozilla Firefox

Method One:
(1) Open Firefox → click on (Firefox menu button) at the upper right corner.

(2) Click (Help) → select “Troubleshooting Information.”

(3) Click on “Reset Firefox…” button showed on the right.

(4) Firefox will close and be reset by itself, after which a window will show up, listing the details imported. You may click on the “Finish” button, and Firefox will open.

Method Two:
(1) Open Firefox → click (Firefox menu button) at the upper right corner → choose “Add-ons”;

(2) Click the “Extensions” tab → click on “Remove” button appeared in the item of Gaming Wonderland Toolbar;

(3) To reset the default search engine and homepage of Firefox from the toolbar’s website to its own default, download the SearchReset on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/ → install it, and use it to restore the default homepage.

Remove Gaming Wonderland Toolbar from Google Chrome

(1) Open Google Chrome → click on (menu) at the upper right corner → select “Tools” → click “Extensions.”

(2）The “Extension” tab will be presented like a web page, click on icon to remove the plug-in.

(3) To set the default search engine of Google Chrome from search.tb.ask.com to Google, click on (menu) at the upper right corner → select “Settings” → click “Manage search engines” in Search section → select Google, and click on “Make Default” button appeared → find Gaming Wonderland Toolbar in the list, and click on “X” button at the right side.

(4) To change the homepage of Google Chrome from home.tb.ask.com to its own default, click on (menu) → select “Settings” → click “Open the New Tab page” under the “On Startup” section.

Last but not least: Remove Gaming Wonderland Toolbar from Internet Explorer

(1) Open Internet Explorer → click on the gear icon at the upper right corner → select “Internet options.”

(2) Click the “Advanced” tab in the box appeared → click on the “Reset” button.

(3) Select the “Delete personal settings” in the Reset Internet Explorer Setting box → click “Reset.”

(4) Wait until the resetting is finished → click “Close” in the confirmation dialogue box → click “OK.”

(5) Re-open Internet Explorer.

Easier Approach to Remove Gaming Wonderland Toolbar

• Download, install, and start Max Uninstaller.
• Choose Gaming Wonderland Toolbar icon, and click “Run Analysis” in Step 1.
• Select the item presented, click “Complete Uninstall”, and click “Next” on the pop-up window to proceed the uninstall;
• Remove it from relevant web browser with Max Uninstaller’s Plug-in Cleaner.

• When it tells you “Please wait while it initializes the uninstall process.”, click “Scan Leftovers”.

• Select the item displayed in Step 3, and click “Delete Leftovers”.

See? Just to get rid of a stubborn software, there is no need to reinstall your operating system, which will not only takes a long time, but also require you to restore registry entries for the installed programs you want to keep using.

Yet there are too many installation tricks today, you don’t know whether the program you prepare to install is bundled with any other at all, even though the program itself is safe. So you are suggested using this reliable toolbar, for both Gaming Wonderland Toolbar removal and the future inevitable situations.

Time to make your move!