I have downloaded a couple of pieces of software (Big Fish Games and GotSnipe Toolbar) which i have since decided to get rid of.
I have uninstalled them, deleted them from add/remove, deleted them from the registry, used avast, spybot, adaware, regcleaner.... etc etc but i am still left with their names greyed out in the IE toolbar!!!
Its annoying the hell out of me as i cant get fully rid of the damn things.
In IE I go View... Toolbars... and I get a list of the usual toolbars plus these two greyed out. How the hell do I get completely rid of them?
I have attached a gif with a shot of the offending items so as you know exactly what im talking about
i have just been a complete idiot and deleted 10 folders in regedit. I meant to delete unecessary values but did the entire folders instead.
it was folders like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall\{01A2E33A-8ADA-42D1-9173-8F65149E952F}
but obviously i dont know which ones as they are gone!
is there any way i can get them back now? does this mean my pc will have problems?
They were all in the folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall\ and were add/remove programs folders
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 21:35:35, on 11/09/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Run hijackthis and click scan button and put checks next to these:
O2 - BHO: Big Fish Games - {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-86BD-FD60BB9AAE3A} - blank (file missing)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {FDD3B846-8D59-4ffb-8758-209B6AD74ACC} - (no file)
O3 - Toolbar: Big Fish Games - {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-86BD-FD60BB9AAE3A} - blank (file missing)
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