program removal help

[CraigK]

I just got back from school and I have to deal with the computer at home. I have just got finished removing most of the junk put on it by my family. I have a problem getting rid of two things though. I am running XP Pro on this machine.

First, My sister installed the Yahoo messenger client. the client isn't my problem, the problem is whenever I startup the computer the client starts, and shows up in my task bar. I tried going into its properties but it only lets me play with connection types. How do I remove it from starting up?

The second problem is the bigger nuisance. Whenever I start up IE explorer there is another toolbar. I tried unchecking it, but whenever I restart explorer the tool bar shows up. I ran a search on it and it appears to be a startium tool bar. Besides from this bar being a pain on it's own, I think it is allowing pop ups to get through my google toolbar popup blocker.

As always your help is greatly appreciated.

[dustyrun]

for Yahoo messenger. go to run and type msconfig. go to startup folder and Uncheck.
for #2: Search on the net and it should have a uninstall tool available. maybe.

Rick

[JPMiller]

Run Spybot and Adaware to see if that catches either of them...then do a search for yahoo and try to manually route out as much of it as you can...same for the other toolbar...

[CraigK]

I have already run adaware and got rid of a lot of other junk. I also ran my virus scans. the msconfig thing worked, I turned some other things off as well.

[kranich]

I think there are two possible solutions.

Try both of these and let me know if it works.

First from IE click:

<Tools>
<Internet options>
<Advanced tab>

Uncheck:

<Enable third party browser extensions>

Click:

<Apply>

Restart your computer. This should disable those add in toolbars.

If that does not nuke it try booting to the safe mode and do a search for the following files:

stlbdist.dll
stlbupdt.dll
stlbad.dll

When you find them, rename them something else like stlbdist.old. Restart and open IE. Once you do this, it should disable it.