A Few Steps to Remove Hao123 Toolbar

Hao123 Toolbar is one of those troublesome browser-hijacker, which causes many system problems upon the usage of Internet surfing, despite the fact that it doesn’t do harm to your computer.

The plug-in can infect different internet browsers, especially for the popular ones like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Infections could take place if you carelessly go to an unofficial website downloading unreliable sources, during whose installation process you will be tricked into changing your browser’s default search engine and homepage. Those invisible alterations are found typically right after you restart the browser.

Since the infection remains on both your PC and your frequently-used browser, you need to both uninstall it regularly via control panel and undo the wanted settings for your browser. You can look through the contents below.

To successfully and completely delete Hao123 Toolbar, please follow all procedure in correct order. Don’t rush to go through steps you’re not sure about if you encounter any problem.

How to Remove Hao123 Toolbar on Your Own

• Install and Run Max Uninstaller. Choose Hao123 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.

• Click on Scan Leftovers when it tells you “Please wait while it initializes the uninstall process.”
• Select the item displayed in Step 3, and click Delete Leftovers.

Job is done : )

Conventional Procedure to Remove Hao123 Toolbar

Reading this part would help you learn related knowledge on regular removal of programs, among which the “add-on”s are little bit different. Other than uninstall it by taking the common steps through Control Panel, you still get to clean out its extensions and undo those malicious changes on your web browser. See the following specific guides:

1.First of All, Conduct the Removal in Control Panel.

If you are a Windows 8 user, double-click This PC on desktop, click on Open Control Panel, and click Uninstall a program under the Programs section.

(The other option: move your mouse pointer to the lower right corner and stay for a while, select “Search” on the pop-up menu, type in “control panel”, press Enter key, and click on Uninstall a program under the Programs section)

If you are a Windows 7 user, click the Start button at the lower left corner, select Control Panel, and click on Uninstall a program under the Programs section;

Then you can see all the installed programs being listed in “Add/uninstall a program” on the window appeared. Scroll through the list, if you find Hao123 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. Remove Hao123 Toolbar from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer.

Under certain circumstance, the plug-in can be automatically added to your web browser without taking an installation package after you visit a website, 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 Hao123 Toolbar from three widely-used browsers. Don’t forget refer to the images.

Remove Hao123 Toolbar from Mozilla Firefox

1. Open Firefox, click (Firefox menu button) at the upper right corner, and select Add-ons.

2. Click the Extensions tab, and click on Remove button appeared in the item of Hao123 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.

The Other Option:
1. Open Firefox, and 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.

Remove Hao123 Toolbar from Google Chrome

1.Open Google Chrome, click on main menu button, displayed as three horizontal lines: . Then select Extensions.

2.You can see the Extension tab being presented like a web page, click on icon to remove the plug-in.

3.To set the default search engine of Google Chrome from the one it replaced 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 Hao123 Toolbar in the list, and click on X button at the right side.

4. To change the homepage of Google Chrome from Hao123.com to its own default, click on (menu), select Settings, click Open the New Tab Page under the On Startup section.

The Other Option:
1.Open Google Chrome, click on main menu button, displayed as three horizontal lines: . Select the option labeled Settings.

2. The Settings will be displayed in a new tab or window (depending on your configuration). Scroll to the bottom, and click on Show advanced settings.

3.The advanced settings will be presented. Scroll down until you see the Reset browser settings button, and click on it.

4. A pop-up box will show up asking for your confirmation, listing the components that will be restored to the default status. Click on Reset button to finish the restoration job.

Remove Hao123 Toolbar from Internet Explorer

1.Open Internet Explorer, click on the gear icon () at the top right corner, and select Internet Options.

2.Click on the Advanced tab in the Internet Options box, and click on the Reset button.

3. In the Reset Internet Explorer Settings window, tick the Delete personal settings option, and click on the Reset button.

4.Wait for Internet Explorer to complete its resetting job, click on the Close button. Then all you need to do is restart your browser.

Job is done : )

The above is a comprehensive removal instruction to uninstaller Hao123 Toolbar from your PC. You can reset your favorite web browser to the default settings if the first instruction of Firefox and Chrome fail to deliver the desired results.

Yet meanwhile you need to know that once you restore it to default settings, all your person settings and essential information including passwords, bookmarks, browsing history, web form auto-fill records and open tabs will all be removed from the browser.

Never mind, you might as well try out this tool here by clicking the download button instead of conducting the restoration that way.