How to remove Template Helper New Tab

What is Template Helper New Tab

Template Helper New Tab is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) that affects the browsing experience of users by modifying their web browser settings. This intrusive browser extension often gets installed without the explicit consent of the user and can cause unwanted changes to the new tab page, search engine, and homepage. Search queries will lead to search.htemplatehelper.co. If you find yourself dealing with Template Helper New Tab and want to regain control over your browsing settings, this article will guide you on how to remove it effectively. Template Helper New Tab is a browser extension that claims to provide users with enhanced features to customize their new tab page. It promises various tools and templates for quick access to frequently visited websites, weather updates, to-do lists, and more. While these features might seem useful at first glance, Template Helper New Tab frequently infiltrates users’ systems through deceptive techniques, such as bundled software installations, misleading advertisements, or fake software updates. Once installed, it integrates itself into popular web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge, making it difficult for users to remove it without proper guidance. In the following sections, we will provide step-by-step instructions on how to remove Template Helper New Tab from your web browser, ensuring a clean and secure browsing environment.

How Template Helper New Tab infected your computer

Template Helper New Tab adopts several strategies to infect computers and gain unauthorized access to users’ browsers. One common method is through software bundling, where the extension is packaged with free software downloads. Users often overlook the optional installations during the setup process, allowing Template Helper New Tab to piggyback its way onto their systems. Another prevalent method is through misleading advertisements and pop-ups, which trick users into clicking on deceptive links that trigger automatic installations. Moreover, Template Helper New Tab may exploit security vulnerabilities in outdated software or masquerade as a legitimate browser update to deceive users into granting permission for installation. Once inside the system, Template Helper New Tab modifies browser settings, sets itself as the default new tab page, and may even redirect web searches to sponsored websites, generating revenue for its developers through pay-per-click advertising.

1. Download Template Helper New Tab Removal Tool
2. Remove Template Helper New Tab from Control Panel and Applications
3. Remove Template Helper New Tab extensions from browsers
4. Reset browser search and homepage settings
5. Alternative way to remove Template Helper New Tab search redirects
6. Clean browser shortcuts from Template Helper New Tab
7. How to protect from threats like Template Helper New Tab

Remove Template Helper New Tab manually for free

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full Template Helper New Tab removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of the Template Helper New Tab an installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Note: Template Helper New Tab can be installed as Google Chrome extension as Administrator (you may see Installed by enterprise policy or Your browser is managed by your organization inscription near it), and this will not allow removal. Therefore, before starting removal process, perform these actions:

1. Start the Command Prompt by clicking the Start menu button and typing command prompt (or just searching for “command prompt” in Windows 10 search field). Right click on the Command Prompt result and choose Run as Administrator.



2. Type in and execute the following commands:

   
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
gpupdate /force

Remove Template Helper New Tab from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing Template Helper New Tab you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Template Helper New Tab”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, or Mac.

Remove Template Helper New Tab from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Template Helper New Tab-related or other suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Template Helper New Tab from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Template Helper New Tab-related or other suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Template Helper New Tab from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Template Helper New Tab-related or other suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Template Helper New Tab from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Template Helper New Tab from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Template Helper New Tab-related or other suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Template Helper New Tab-related or other suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Remove Template Helper New Tab from Windows 11:

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the Apps tab on the left side.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Template Helper New Tab-related or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on 3-dots icon near it and then click Uninstall button near it.
6. Depending on the type of application (Windows Store app or classic Win32 app) it will be removed immediately or you will need to confirm the action and go through standard uninstall procedure.

Remove Template Helper New Tab from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. Template Helper New Tab might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag Template Helper New Tab from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Cannot uninstall Template Helper New Tab in Windows

In some cases, Template Helper New Tab won’t uninstall and gives you the message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Template Helper New Tab. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Template Helper New Tab folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Template Helper New Tab in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Template Helper New Tab or other suspicious program

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Cannot uninstall Template Helper New Tab in MacOS

If you can’t uninstall Template Helper New Tab using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of Template Helper New Tab. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag Template Helper New Tab from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with Template Helper New Tab.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Template Helper New Tab from Control Panel or Applications often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has a browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Template Helper New Tab-related extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Template Helper New Tab related extension.
4. Click the Remove button to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Find Template Helper New Tab related extension.
4. Click three-dots icon near it and choose Remove in the menu.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find Template Helper New Tab extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) edge://extensions.
3. Find Template Helper New Tab related extension.
4. Click Remove link under the name of extension.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Template Helper New Tab from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Template Helper New Tab, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Template Helper New Tab or other suspicious extensions.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Template Helper New Tab does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find Template Helper New Tab or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Template Helper New Tab installs a search engine (https://search.htemplatehelper.co or https://query.htemplatehelper.co) that hijacks your browsers. Here is the instruction to reset your browser’s homepage, new tab, and search engine to default values.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. On the left panel expand Advanced options.
4. Choose Reset and clean up.
5. Click on Restore settings to their original defaults link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Google Chrome > Settings > Advanced

Reset and clean up

Reset Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Refresh Firefox… button.
4. Click Refresh Firefox button in opened dialog window to confirm.

Reset Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Go to the Privacy section of Safari’s preferences.
3. Click Remove All Website Data button.
4. In opened window click Remove Now button to remove data stored by websites in Safari.
5. Go to the Advanced section of Safari’s preferences.
6. Click the Show Develop menu in menu bar option.
7. In the menu click Develop and select Empty Caches from this menu.
8. Again, go to Safari menu and choose Clear History….
9. Choose to clear all history and click Clear History button.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser
2. Click on 3-dots icon in the top-right corner and choose Settings.
3. On the left panel find and click Reset settings option.
4. Click on Restore settings to their default values link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Start Opera browser and click on Opera icon in the top-left corner.
2. Choose Settings and click Advanced on the left side and choose Browser.
3. Scroll down to the very bottom and click on Restore settings to their original defaults link.
4. Confirm by clicking Reset button.

Alternative way to remove adware browser extensions and reset browser settings

For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad rating including related to Template Helper New Tab. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

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Cleaning browsers shortcuts

You can clean your browser shortcuts manually right-clicking on your browser icon, choosing “Properties” and removing hijacker address from “Target” field (leave just the path to your browser). However it is easier to use free Shortcut Cleaner from BleepingComputer. Download it here – its FREE:

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