Showing posts with label Online Scams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Online Scams. Show all posts

Monday, December 1, 2014

Steps To Delete Yahoo Toolbar

The Yahoo toolbar is a kind of add-on in online web browsers that lets users access different features from Yahoo. This add-on also helps in saving the recently visited sites, recent searches, along with which it provides protection against malware and viruses. This add-on also helps in creating bookmarks that would make it very easy to browse the website.

Usually, Yahoo toolbar is downloaded as a part of Yahoo applications such as Yahoo Messenger. In case you do not use this add-on toolbar or if you think that it slows down the browsing speed, you can have the toolbar removed from the browser or the computer. It is better to use your web browser without such add-ons and other toolbars. Most of the toolbars used are one of the ways in which hackers find their way into the customer’s computers. This leads to plenty of online scams, in order to avoid them, remove all the add-ons including Yahoo toolbar from the computer.

Removing Yahoo Toolbar From Web Browsers

  • Launch the web browser, for instance Mozilla Firefox. 
  • From the browser window, click on the Firefox menu. 
  • Now click on the Add-Ons menu. 
  • Skim through the list and find Yahoo Toolbar. Select the same and click on Remove. 
  • Close the list of add-ons and then Close the web browser.
Uninstalling Yahoo Toolbar From The Computer
  • Click on the Start button to the lower left of the desktop. From the Start menu, click on the Control Panel, which appears to the right of the menu. 
  • When the Control Panel window appears, look for the Add\Remove Programs icon, and double click on the same. 
  • This will open a window with the list of all programs and software installed in the computer. 
  • Look for Yahoo Toolbar from the list, select the same and then click on Uninstall or Remove button, which is located at the top of the list. 
  • The moment you click on Remove, you will see a prompt that would ask you to confirm the removal. Click on Yes and follow the other onscreen instructions. 
  • When the removal completes, Restart the computer. This will refresh the setting and the changes made would become effective. 
To stay away from any potential threats or hacks including online scams, it is better to remove such undesirable add-ons and toolbars from the web browser.

Monday, November 24, 2014

What To Do When Outlook Will Not Start

The modern version of Murphy’s Law dictates, whatever that can go wrong, will go wrong at the worst possible moment. Most users would attest to the fact that Outlook online email client would go corrupt and refuse to open up in rare occasions when you really want it to work. The inoperability of the program compounds the issue since the user has no clues about what went wrong and cannot troubleshoot it effectively.

The best solution when dealing with such an issue would be to adopt a systematic approach to solving individual issues with the online email client. This is the fastest way to troubleshoot the issue since you will be able to prioritize the easily solvable issues before moving on to harder issues. Instead of following methods recommended by online scams, here’s what you have to do.

Corrupted Navigation Pane: the most common issue
  • Click on the Start menu and then click on Run. 
  • From inside the Run window, click on the text box and type in outlook.exe /resetnavpane and press Enter. 
  • If you are using Windows versions higher than Windows XP, click on the Start menu and type in the command into the Start search button. 
  • Doing so will automatically reset the navigation pane and restart Outlook. 
Turn off Compatibility Mode In Outlook
  • Click on the Start menu and then type in Outlook.exe in the search field. Alternatively, you can navigate to the destination folder itself.
  • Right-click the search result and then click on Properties. From inside this menu, click on Compatibility tab and then disable the Run this program in compatibility mode for setting.
  • Close the Properties window and then Restart Outlook.
Deleting the Outlook PST file

This method should only be opted if you are unable to recover the PST file and nothing else seems to work. Doing so will delete all your Outlook data, which means, you should try this method as the last resort.
Click on the Start menu and then again click on the Run menu.
Inside the Run window, type in %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook and press Enter.
This will open up the Outlook folder where the configuration files are stored. Click on the files and then press Delete.

Although Outlook is a reliable software, it is always advisable to keep back-ups of the data. This way, you will not lose important emails if there are issues with your Outlook email client. Try to make these changes only if you do not care if your data is corrupted and refrain from falling for online scams that promise to troubleshoot all issues with your computer.