Laptop Concerns

[the.avon.lady1]

Good Morning,
I have another question, sorry, I guess I am full of them. I know that you thought you were finished with me. I guess right now I am afraid to make decisions for myself, maybe I will get to the point where I think for myself again and therefore run out of questions. ( I am posting it on this thread because it is shorter and somebody else may have the answer they need too). So here goes, I uninstalled Adobie Reader and installed Foxit. I don't know if I missed a check box that I should have unchecked but "Foxit PDF Creator Toolbar" and "Foxit PDF Creator Toolbar Updater" installed with Foxit. Are these necessary and can I uninstall these? I am going to go back to AT&T as my homepage that uses the Yahoo search engine instead of the MSN with Bing but Foxit wants me to use their webpage with Ask. So I am wondering if this is because of the toolbar installation.

[jholland1964]

Good Morning,
I have another question, sorry, I guess I am full of them. I know that you thought you were finished with me. I guess right now I am afraid to make decisions for myself, maybe I will get to the point where I think for myself again and therefore run out of questions. ( I am posting it on this thread because it is shorter and somebody else may have the answer they need too). So here goes, I uninstalled Adobie Reader and installed Foxit. I don't know if I missed a check box that I should have unchecked but "Foxit PDF Creator Toolbar" and "Foxit PDF Creator Toolbar Updater" installed with Foxit. Are these necessary and can I uninstall these? I am going to go back to AT&T as my homepage that uses the Yahoo search engine instead of the MSN with Bing but Foxit wants me to use their webpage with Ask. So I am wondering if this is because of the toolbar installation.

You absolutely missed some check marks. One thing you must do always, is whenever you download anything, watch every single thing they show you either when choosing the download or during the actual install and remove check marks for the things they may offer. You missed a lot more than one check mark there. As far as I can tell you missed at least four....toolbar, updater, home page, and Ask. As far as home page, all you have to do is say no. Toolbars can be disabled via Firefox in Tools, Addons. Just click the disable button next to each.

I never ever use a search engine box on a home page or any web page for that matter, helps eliminate possible tracking by the home page. I use Google through Firefox browser toobar addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...atform=windows OR you can use the built in search window in Firefox and choose google by clicking the drop down and choosing google.