Comments on: What is Google Toolbar Notifier and how to get rid of it

By: BrianH

BrianH — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:08:34 +0000

If you have IE8, go to Tools, Manage Add-Ons. Untder Toolbars and Extensions you will see the ToolbarNotifyer BHO. This is a “Browser Helper Object”. Disable and you should be good to go.

By: tiger

tiger — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:57:16 +0000

For IE8 and XP:

1. Delete GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe in folder: C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier.
2. Command line: Type MSCONFIG. On the Startup tab, uncheck GoogleToolbarNotifier.
3. Restart Windows.

By: Antigen

Antigen — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:13:01 +0000

If you look at the toolbar, there should be a little icon that looks like a wrench, at least on mine that is how it is. I don’t have the ‘settings’ button to the right either. Just click on the wrench and it will take you to the options, where you can do as the people before me said.

Also, if you don’t have the toolbar showing when you open IE, click on ‘View’ in the menu bar, then ‘Toolbars’, then make sure ‘Google toolbar’ is checked. After you check it, and hit OK, it should appear so you can find the wrench and adjust your settings.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:50:23 +0000

If you are using IE8 and Win 7 you can:

1. Select Tools
2. Select Internet Options
3. Select the Programs tab
4. Select Manage Add Ons
5. Search for Google Toolbar Notifier, select it, then choose “disable” at the bottom.

Now it should be disabled when you run MSCONFIG.

Cheers

By: ben

ben — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:49:37 +0000

And what if you do not have the google toolbar and still the googletoolbarnotifier is running?

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:36:20 +0000

Google Toolbar Notifier and/or Google Quick Search box prevented my monitor from entering standby. After nearly a week of deleting the programs, including their registry files, and having the programs reappear in the middle of the night like a monster coming back to life in a horror movie, I sadly deleted my Google Toolbar. By attempting to take over my computer, Google turned a loyal fan into an angry and disillusioned opponent.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:33 +0000

During a Google search, your website answered my question about the Toolbar Notifier. Thank you.

By: Kalee

Kalee — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:22:36 +0000

“I tried to get rid of the toobar notifier but there isn’t a settings button to the right of the google toolbar. is there another way to do this?”

same thing with me. anyone can help me?

By: mindegy

mindegy — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:01:17 +0000

Yea.It is all simple as you presented here. But with google toolbar notifier every nooblet hacker can enter on your system, and dns spoof your internet connection. how? When you conect to your gmail adress any beginner hacker can make one dns spoofing link from your google page gmail into your dsl device and like this nice and easy he’s inside your modem. from here to randomized disconnections and hacking it is just one step.

By: uhollins

uhollins — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:46:50 +0000

This was very helpful… thanks…I had been wondering what Google Toolbar Notifier was and how to get rid of it!

By: Aydin

Aydin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:46:11 +0000

I have uninstalled all Google programs and I still have this Google Toolbar Notifier process running on my system. How can I permanently get rid of it? Thanks

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:51:36 +0000

Here is an odd one. I’m running Firefox 3.5.5. No Google Tool Bar in sight (not even on the right-click menu for toolbars). And yet GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe is running. Without a Google tool bar the instructions above are useless BUT I did find on the Firefox Tools | Options window, under the Advanced | Security tab, a checkbox for Search Engines. I’ve unchecked that and we’ll see if GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe will stop running now. If not, I’ll just nuke the daylights out of it.

By: Marlene

Marlene — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:11:40 +0000

Thanks for that. What I actually did was “end process” in Windows Task Manager, for the GoogleToolbarNotifier, which had appeared for the first time today. Hope my action wasn’t a no-no, but it certainly made it disappear.

I have a question I hope you can answer for me. GoogleDesktop.exe appears three times in the Task Manager processes list. Memory usage is 7,052k, 3968k & 7024k. I was wondering why this would be? And then there’s BGGOOGLE.exe, 2032k?? I do use GoogleDesktop for only one thing, the searchbox that sits in my utility tray at all times whether I have my browser open or not. So handy for any queries I want to search.

By: Maximus

Maximus — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:32:16 +0000

I just renamed the folder containing the updater…

c:\documentandsettings\[user]\application data\local settings\google\UPDATE to UPDATE2

now updater doesn’t work !!!!

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:23:11 +0000

thanks for this.. used to always think it was a malware or virus.. and used to always kill it..