I have written a small program that will detect and (if selected) uninstall selected toolbars that are installed in Internet Explorer and FireFox.

For a list of toolbars that we currently can detect and remove, check this page for firefox or check this page for internet explorer
The actions that it is going to support are:

• No actions need to be added right now

The actions it currently already fully or partially supports

• Application (Te see if it is a toolbar for IE or Firefox)*
• Detect (to find if the toolbar is installed)*
• DeleteFile (to delete extra files that are not in the abovementioned folder)*
• DeleteFolder (to determine wich folder is needed to remove and then removed)*
• EditFile (to delete settings out of files)*
• ToolbarName (very import internal toolbarname for firefox as the toolbars from firefox are removed at the official way by FireFox (toolbar@alexa.com for the Alexa toolbar)({3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c}
  for the Google Toolbar) and so forth)*

(items marked with a * are tested and working for firefox and IE, items marked with a * are tested and working for IE only, items marked with a * are tested and working for Firefox only)
See the attached screenshot to see how it looks.
If you have any suggestions on to change the look perhaps or anything else before i'm going to release it, please post it here.

The website can be found here: Toolbar.decomputeur.nl
For a direct link to the program, click here
There is a forum available for any bugs, suggestions and other things...
New toolbars can be submitted using 2 forms. the first form only ask for the toolbarname and website.
The other ask a lot more information that will be explained later

A before and after screenshot of a firefox window that has been cluttered with toolbars
It uses firefox's official way of uninstalling an extension

Seems quite nice. If i, i.e. accidentally install Google Toolbar along with some program, i can easily remove it with that Toolbar Uninstaller.

That is indeed what it is being build for.

If you're looking for any help with anything let me know (I have some web space and I've been doing web development for the greater part of six years, my services are free for any author of freeware).

sorry to dissapoint you, but i already have been offered soch things, but i can handle those myself. the website will be launched together with the program itself. I already have betatesters and i already have a mirror for the program.

But thanks for your offer. i appreciate it

No disappointment, lol. If you don't want my bandwidth, I'm A-OK with it . I will take this moment, however, to brag about my host - asmallorange.com is quite excellent and if any of you are looking for hosting, it should be the first place you go to.

Updated first post to reflect the changes in the program, as it now has been succesfully tested with IE Toolbars

the release date and time has been moved to saturday 4th of August 2007 (GMT+1) around 17.00 hour

The website and program are now released. Check the first post to see the details.

Found a few minor bugs.

When you move your mouse over the minimize button, the update button takes it's place, and it reads tbk in the taskbar.

Sorry to say mate, but the first bug is not reproducable for me. could you tell me wich os you are running? (including any Service packs you have installed)

Windows XP SP2

strange. the program is being developed on that same os. including the SP. i will try to see if i can find a bug. if i don't find it, i will increase the distance between the update button and the other buttons to see if that helps.

Here is an SS.

Click to view attachment

i couldn't find any bug around that code, but i have increased the space between it. maybe that it will help. tbk in the taskbar is gone AND i gave the update button a tooltip. Unfortunately, i discovered a bug in the update code, wich prevents the program update from automaticly downloading and installing. so for this version, you have to do that manually. it will be updated in about 5 minutes from the time of this post...

Your best bet and would be better anyways. Replace the Exit button with Update, the Exit is in a bad spot, and is not necessary.

What files/folders that installer creates?

the installer creates just a few files:
in the programfiles folder (or the folder of your choice) it creates the folder Toolbar Uninstaller
In that folder it will create an empty folder updates specially for the downloaded updates. (a future version will delete the contents of that folder automaticly)
furthermore it creates the files tbk.exe, detection.dat, unins000.dat and unins000.exe

i guess i missed your screenshot, but as i can see it, the bug is not in the program, but is has to do with your skin. the skin you are using uses extra wide buttons in that corner, but i like you suggestion of removing the exit button and change it to an update button...
If there are more users that would like this, please tell me and it will be changed asap.

The reason I say is... CCleaner use to have an Exit button, but all in all, it was pointless to have it. Many use skins (the one I use is very popular). I just suggested that because it will probably help out in the long run.

FYI, it still cuts off, but just a little.

I am heading out to see the new Bourne movie right now. I will start working on the new icon when I get back. I already have an idea of what I am going to do.

Thanks for the program! If you need more toolbars info just take a look at a similar (french) piece of software here:


http://www.bibi26.power-heberg.com/jour/BT...xchangelog.html

http://www.bibi26.power-heberg.com/jour/BT...changelog2.html

thx for the suggestion (wich i'm going to do after a movie also) and for the time you are going to spend on the icon. Also, thanks for the bug-report

They sure will come in handy to add more toolbars.

Just had a little look at your software, can appreciate the work you've put in, and judging by the amount shown on here you'll have work for many years!!

http://www.toolbarstation.com/List_of_Toolbars.html

Thx mate. these will also come in handy to be added. this means that there will be many new releases of the detectionfile

Another tip:
Change the name of the downloadable file from setup x.x.x..exe to using the name of the program,
As I have a folder that I dump all my downloads into (sort them later) and remembering what a program called
"setup.exe" does is not gonna happen, and I can't always be bothered reinstalling to find out the manually
rename the file.


And a bug:
The more times I click rescan, I get another copy of the "Site Advisor" toolbar in the list

The bug is already solved in the next version. The suggestion will be done.

New version released.
please download the file from the first post in this thread, as there still are some small bugs with the autoupdater....

Hi eagle, thanks from me also.

May new toolbars added to the detection file thanks to the help of TwistedMetal (he currently is responsible for exactly 50% of the toolbars that are in the detection file. Just click the update button in the program.

Many new toolbars added. all of these are added by TwistedMetal.

New Version available for download (you can use the internal updater again)
Direct link
Changelog

New verison released for download (also available via updater)
Changelog
Direct Link

Same here. This is a very useful tool indeed!!

Maybe it can be an add-on to CCleaner?

Thx Mate.
I'm just glad that i could make some people happy

Well, if you like making people happy, I'm thinking of banking online, and I've got this bank loan I'd like removing. Can you fix that?

"The removal of your loan has been rejected. Please try again."

One more time: A new version has been released of the Toolbar Uninstaller.
Changelog:

* Made the program Multi-Language
* Small bug fixes in the options-screen

New version: Added many toolbars and some minor fixes to the program itself

Bug tracker opend to report any bugs. Just go to the main site and click on Bugs

Version 1.0 is scheduled to be released on Saturday the 1st of September 2007. The following items have already been updated for the 1.0 release:
- Fixed a small bug in the caption code
- Changed the update procedure
- [0000001] Error after display of options form (eagle00789)
- [0000005] Need more logfile entries (eagle00789)
- [0000011] automaticly send bugreports on crashes (eagle00789)
- [0000014] Risklevels for high risk toolbars (eagle00789)
- [0000015] List index out of bounds (-1) (eagle00789)

The following items will be updated in the 1.0 release:
- [0000007] Command Line Parameters missing (/? /auto /update)
- Many, many, Many new toolbars to be detected. including a few high-risk ones. The High-risk toolbars are automaticly added to the list of toolbars to delete, to make it more easy to delete them.
- [0000012] There is no helpfile in the program available.

if you find any bugs, you can mail them to me at bugs@decomputeur.nl or report them in the bugtracker.
To find the bugtracker, goto toolbar uninstaller's site, login (or register at the site) and click on bugs
The easy-est way is to report them by mail at the above adress. that way they will also be automaticly added to the bugtracker

Version 1.0.0.0 has been released 2 days ahead of schedule. Goto this site, click on Official Stable Releases and there it is. Happy Toolbar Uninstalling

Would your program help with this?

(Background, maybe unrelated: I have an annoying pop-up-like automatic connection to IE related to Spyware Detector (which I neither have nor want) every time I boot up)

I downloaded and ran CCleaner for the 1st time, and upon restarting, on top of the above "pop-up" I got one about Yahoo Toolbar, and both were difficult to close. I'm not sure what to do or even the exact question to ask. I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 that came with factory installed Vista Home Basic.

Thanks

The Yahoo toolbar may have come with CCleaner if you didn't untick the box during install, that toolbar uninstaller should get rid of that. But the pop up issue sounds like an infection of some sort, you should post a HijackThis log in the log section of the forum:

Instructions here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=10965

Post log here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showforum=12

The toolbar uninstaller project is under new management, so the updates as promised will be coming in the next few days.

Dude...is there any Malware in it? I asked because the website's rating is not good.

Don't you think in all the time this topic's been here one of us might have noticed if it was malware. Where are you getting the idea the site is dodgy from?