How to remove Your Search Bar

What is Your Search Bar

Your Search Bar is a rogue browser extension that functions as browser-hijacking software. It alters browser settings to promote the yoursearchbar.me fake search engine through redirects. This software typically modifies browsers by assigning endorsed website addresses as the default search engines, homepages, and new tab/window URLs. As a result, web searches performed via the URL bar and new browser tabs/windows opened result in redirects to the yoursearchbar.me webpage. The browsers affected by Your Search Bar include Google Chrome and Firefox, among others. The extension modifies the settings of these browsers, changing the default search engine, homepage, and new tab/window URLs. To remove Your Search Bar, you need to uninstall the unwanted applications using the Control Panel. In Google Chrome, you can disable “Your Search Bar” in the “On startup” section of the settings. If the browser hijacker URL (hxxp://www.yoursearchbar.me) is present, you can remove it by clicking on the three vertical dots icon and selecting “Remove”. To change your default search engine in Google Chrome, you can go to “Settings”, then the “Search engine” section, click “Manage search engines…”, look for “yoursearchbar.me”, and when located, click the three vertical dots near this URL and select “Delete” In Firefox, to reset your homepage, click the Firefox menu, then select “Settings”, in the opened window disable “Your Search Bar”. If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements, you may need to reset your browser settings or use specialized software to remove the browser hijacker.

Yoursearchbar.me

Your Search Bar extension

How Your Search Bar infects computers

Your Search Bar can infect computers through various methods. Often, it is bundled with other software, and users inadvertently install it without realizing it. It can also be distributed through deceptive advertisements. Once installed, it modifies the browser settings, changing the default search engine, homepage, and new tab/window URLs to yoursearchbar.me. The primary symptom of a Your Search Bar infection is the redirection of web searches to the yoursearchbar.me webpage. This fake search engine cannot generate search results on its own and redirects to a legitimate Internet search site. At the time of research, this page landed on Bing.

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

Remove Your Search Bar manually for free

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

Note: Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing Your Search Bar you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Your Search Bar”. 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 Your Search Bar from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Your Search Bar or other suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Your Search Bar from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Your Search Bar or other suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar or other suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Your Search Bar from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar or other suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Remove Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar from Mac:

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

Cannot uninstall Your Search Bar in Windows

In some cases, Your Search Bar won’t uninstall and gives you the message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Your Search Bar. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar or other suspicious program

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

Cannot uninstall Your Search Bar in MacOS

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

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag Your Search Bar from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with Your Search Bar.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Your Search Bar, 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 Your Search Bar or other suspicious extensions.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Your Search Bar 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 Your Search Bar or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Your Search Bar installs a search engine (yoursearchbar.me) 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 Your Search Bar. 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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