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re: How to remove search assisstant from windowsme Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 10:42 am Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) search assisstant, is that the altva vista one? what does it tell you when you try to remove it?, and also have you tried to remove it in safe mode? (restarting and depressing F8 before windows restarts puts you in safe mode) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to remove search assisstant from windowsme Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 12:51 pm Posted by Steve Hill (2 messages posted) Joe Search Assisstants takes over your homepage and will not allow you to visit sites such as "hotmail" and "microsoft". When you try to remove it all it says is "uninstall failed" I need to know if there is a patch to solve the problem [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to remove search assisstant from windowsme Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 2:42 pm Posted by Donna R (437 messages posted) many others have had that problem--this link is for 180searchassistant www.180searchassistant.com/uninstall/uninstall1.aspx?ClientId=189390497&ProductId=378 did you try adaware or spybot? pestpatrol says the program removes it but it's not freeware. when you try to remove it by add/remove programs, make sure your browser is closed. here's another site http://www.j79zlr.com/reg/RemoveSearchAssistant.php [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to remove search assisstant from windowsme Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 3:29 pm Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) do i take it that MS is your homepage as well?, another question, do you utilize yahoo toolbar? the reason i ask is that yahoo has a beta toolbar with anti-spy built in, powered by pestpatrol, my sis had that 180solutions and it removed it for her on the first scan, she had to turn her system restore off first than turn on once cleaned, ive provided a link to yahoo's beta w/anti-spy if you want to give it a try, it only works for IE 5.5 or higher, and not with any other type of browser like firefox (mozilla) or opera, you should think about utilizing one of those as a full time browser as IE has gotten so unsecure, they are more secure than IE, i use firefox and my malware/virus probs have all but disappeared by about 90-95% http://beta.toolbar.yahoo.com/ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to remove search assistant from windowsme Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 4:44 pm Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) You really have to be clear about which "search assistant" you are talking about. There is now also a "search assistant" that is built into IE if you use the MSN Search function that replaced the old IE Search. To check this, click the Search button. You should get a panel on the left. One of the options is Customize. This gives you an option to use Microsoft's MSN search assistant or to use just one search engine like MSN or Yahoo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to remove search assisstant from windowsme Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 8:28 pm Posted by MrCharlie (4141 messages posted) Do you mean this guy?? ThisOne On Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 8:33 am, Steve Hill wrote: >How can I remove search assisstant from windows millenium edition. I can see the >uninstall program in "add/remove programs" in the control panel but this does not >work [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum