Friday, December 14, 2012

Uninstall Conduit Engine and Conduit Toolbar – How to Uninstall Search Engine and Toolbar?

What is conduit engine?



Conduit engine is an application or software that will allow you to add applications to your computer's browser without using a community toolbar. Conduit engine is not a malware,yet there are something acting weirdly to make you consider it so. Here are the wacky acts Tee Support experts are told:
  • Conduit toolbar shows on your toolbar list but you don't see a toolbar
  • Conduit Engine appears to be some sort of browser extension/add-on.
  • Conduit Engine is surreptitiously installed along with Toolbar. If you uninstall your Toolbar, the Conduit Engine remains.
  • Internet is running very slow.
  • When the installation is completed, you’ll find Conduit Engine on every browser you have.
  • It produces lame, commercial search results
  • After checking you found a whole series of toolbars and coupon sites, etc. you removed what You could but there seem to be a few that you can't get to stay removed. One is the "Alot" toolbar, and the other is "conduitengine".
You’ll rouse a question: if these are bound together on the install, shouldn't they be bound together on the uninstall?


Still Can't Remove Conduit Engine!



Obviously, Conduit engine is causing a hard time on removal – it seems the Add-on cannot easily be removed from browser; add/remove program does nothing – badly want to uninstall conduit engine? Failures keep coming after you’ve tried various means? Follow the steps hereinafter to uninstall Conduit engine and its related toolbar. Should you get stuck during the removal process, you are welcome to start a live chat here for professional help.

 

Manual Instruction to Uninstall Conduit Engine Step by Step


1. Get into the Safe Mode with Networking
Step: Reboot your computer. As the computer is booting but before Windows launches, tap the "F8 key" continuously which should bring up the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" as shown below. Use your arrow keys to highlight "Safe Mode with Networking" option and press Enter key.

   

Step2. Disable its startup items

For Windows XP:

Step: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible start up items.


Step3. Remove add-ons:  

Internet Explorer:
1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;
2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;
3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.    

Google Chrome
1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;
2) Choose ‘Basic Options’;
3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage Search Engines…’ button;
4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select ‘Search Result’ from the list to remove it by clicking the ‘X’ mark.

 Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;
2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab.

Step4. Show hidden files 
step: a) open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;

 

 b) under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;

   


Step5. Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.

Step: Use CTRL+ALT+DEL combination to open Task Manager



Please stop all the following processes.
random.exe


Step6. Delete all related files and registry values in your local hard disk C.

step: Hold down the Windows key on your keyboard and press the "R" button. Type in "regedit" and hit "Enter" to gain access to the Registry Editor.





                         

Delete all its files and Registry values

 

Video Sample Guide on How to Uninstall Conduit Engine


 

Important note: Tee Support is the place to get IMMEDIATE live help for your PCs, peripherals, devices and software applications 24/7. If you cannot solve the issue with the instructions above or need any other assistance, please get help from an Online Computer Expert here for help.

2 comments:

  1. random.exe wasn't there and couldn't delete registry files. need more detailed instructions.

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  2. Hey!
    Great blog! I found some nice tips to remove conduit
    Thank you for sharing
    Keep sharing.

    ReplyDelete