Easy Instructions to Uninstall MyFunCards Toolbar
Are you having trouble removing a browser plug-in? If you have tried a dozens of times but ended up with failure, no worries, read this page and you will learn how to perfectly and easily get rid of the potential unwanted program.
MyFunCards Toolbar is kind of a freeware, technically not a virus at all, but the point is: Do you really want it or need it? Does it actually helps improve your daily life, or it’s just intervening your web surfing experience?
You may have noticed that the plug-in keeps showing coupons, sponsored links, and advertisements in your search results, even though all you want is to follow your preference finding all the things you need.
Since you’re logging with your accounts quite often by using your browser, it is insecure to have an unfamiliar add-on “watching” this. Secretly, it collects search terms from your search queries and other private information from your activities, the earlier you eliminate it, the better.
To remove MyFunCards Toolbar, continue your reading below to see relevant instructions : )
Manual Guides to Remove MyFunCards Toolbar
1. Remove the plug-in from Control Panel
The plug-in may include several programs, such as MyFunCards Toolbar Chrome Extension, MyFunCards Toolbar Firefox Toolbar, MyFunCards 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 MyFunCards 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 MyFunCards 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 MyFunCards Toolbar from three widely-used browsers.
Remove MyFunCards 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 MyFunCards 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 MyFunCards 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.mywebsearch.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 MyFunCards Toolbar in the list, and click on “X” button at the right side.
(4) To change the homepage of Google Chrome from MyWebSearch 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 MyFunCards 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 MyFunCards Toolbar
- Download, install, and start Max Uninstaller;
- Choose MyFunCards 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”.
After your successful removal, don’t forget to pay attention when installing a freeware from an unofficial website, where those malicious developers always put their tricks. If you carelessly click on the “Next” buttons without noticing the installation options are asking for “Change your default search engine to search.mywebsearch.com” and “Set your homepage to MyWebSearch”, your browser will get hijacked.
Except for the above situation, the plug-in sometimes directly sneaks onto your PC after you visit a site, which is really hard to avoid. So you are suggested to keep this valuable tool on your computer in case you run into a similar issue someday.
Now, feel free to hit the download button, then you will know how easy it is to remove MyFunCards Toolbar.
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