Wallpapers Toolbar Removal Guide

Wallpapers Toolbar is one of those browser extensions that you wish you would not have installed on your computer. In fact, quite a few users think that this application is a malicious infection similar to browser hijackers. Albeit our security experts suggest that it is a problematic toolbar, it would be hard to classify it as a computer infection because it does not really enter target system surreptitiously. That fact aside, the bottom’s line is that users have to remove Wallpapers Toolbar from their computers if they want to continue using their PCs just as before. No user should ignore potential security risks no matter how minor they are.

The official website of this toolbar is located at wallpapers.myway.com. When we deal with malicious infections, they seldom have main homepages that come with direct download links. Wallpapers Toolbar is not like that. You can download this application from the aforementioned website. The same can be applied to all the other programs from the Mindspark family. As you can probably tell, this browser extension is just another version of EasyHomeDecorating Toolbar, YourTemplateFinder Toolbar, PasswordLogic Toolbar, and many other browser-enhancing applications from the same group. Although each Mindspark toolbar comes with a different primary function, deep down all of them are pretty much alike.

For instance, Wallpapers Toolbar promises you “a world of fun. All in one toolbar.” It says that with the extension added to your browser, you should be able to design your own homepage in the way you want. Aside from this function, you would also add a toolbar to Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer (the toolbar is not compatible with the Edge browser) that will have shortcuts to Wallpapers, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, and Weather. The question is whether you really need some of these shortcuts on a third party toolbar when you can simply add them to your own browser’s shortcut bar.

Aside from that, Wallpapers Toolbar also comes with the Ask.com search engine that gets set as your default homepage. It would be possible to avoid that if you were attentive during the installation process. However, it is more often than not that this toolbar gets installed bundled with freeware applications, and users are not aware of the fact that this extension is added to their browsers. Thus, Ask.com gets added to the default browser as well, and the next time you access the Internet, you get automatically redirected to home.tb.ask.com.

Is it dangerous? Definitely so, if you continue using Wallpapers Toolbar and Ask.com. This search engine is known to collect information on what websites you visit and what you search for online. Later on, this information could be shared with third parties without your knowledge, and this way you would end up getting exposed to the commercial content. It is not something illegal, but you have to keep in mind the possibility that Wallpapers Toolbar and the search engine it uses could be exploited by cyber criminals for their own purposes.

Upon installation, this toolbar adds a lot of registry entries and CLSIDs to your computer. The problem is that quite a few of them cannot be deleted automatically via Control Panel, and then users need to get rid of these leftovers manually. It might be tedious, especially if you are not an experienced computer user. Nevertheless, you should do everything you can to protect your computer from harm, and that involves removing Wallpapers Toolbar for good.

As far as the installation rate of this browser extension is concerned, 41.5% of all the installation instances have been reported in the United States. Significantly lower numbers of users have installed Wallpapers Toolbar in India (5.9%), the United Kingdom (4.9%), Mexico (4.2%), and Argentina (3.4%). This shows that the toolbar has its own target audience, but it does not mean that it cannot cross borders. As long as you access the websites that are part of its distribution network, it is possible to install it on your PC.

To get rid of this potentially hazardous browser extension, please follow the instructions below. We will tell you how to delete Wallpapers Toolbar from your system via Control Panel, how to restore your browser settings, and how to erase all the leftover files and registry entries. Once the manual removal is complete, you should also scan your computer with the SpyHunter free scanner to determine whether your system is completely safe and clean. Please do not forget that there might be additional unwanted applications on board as such programs seldom travel alone.

How to Remove Wallpapers Toolbar

Windows 10 and Windows 8.1

1. Press Win+R and the Run command prompt will open.
2. Enter Control Panel into the Open box and click OK.
3. Click Uninstall a program and remove the toolbar.

Windows Vista and Windows 7

1. Open the Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Go to Uninstall a program and remove the toolbar.

Windows XP

1. Click the Start menu and navigate to Control Panel.
2. Select Add or remove programs and uninstall the toolbar.

Restore Your Browser

Internet Explorer

1. Press Alt+T and click Internet options.
2. Under General tab, change your homepage address and click OK.
3. Press Alt+T once more and go to Manage add-ons.
4. Click Search providers on the left.
5. Set a new default search engine and remove Ask.com.

Firefox

1. Press Alt+T and go to Add-ons.
2. Open Extensions and remove Wallpapers Toolbar.
3. Press Alt+T once more and go to Options.
4. Under General section, change your homepage address.
5. Click Search on the left, set a new default search engine, and remove Ask.com.

Chrome

1. Press Alt+F and go to More tools.
2. Open Extensions and remove Wallpapers Toolbar.
3. Click Settings on the left pane.
4. Under On Startup, select Open a specific page or set of pages.
5. Click Set pages and change your startup page. Press OK.
6. Select Manage search engines under Search.
7. Set a new default search engine, delete Ask.com and click Done.

Delete Remaining Components

1. Go to C:\Program Files (x86) and delete the WallpapersbyMy_fd folder.
2. Press Win+R and the Run command prompt will open.
3. Type regedit and click OK.
4. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AppDataLow\Software.
5. Locate the WallpapersbyMyWay_fd key and right-click it to delete it.
6. Click Edit at the top of the menu bar.
7. Select Find and locate the follow keys to delete them:
   {1EE42E43-91DE-4A76-B77E-E1870C2D2C38}
   {3683C77C-128E-4F74-A6C2-5C56BC63592A}
   {553DC48B-11B2-4508-B446-BA9718B8455A}
   {1EE42E43-91DE-4A76-B77E-E1870C2D2C38}
   {3683C77C-128E-4F74-A6C2-5C56BC63592A}
   {553DC48B-11B2-4508-B446-BA9718B8455A}
   {0131D744-0AF6-4559-9964-5601CC2D57FF}
   {052AE7CD-488D-4645-966E-EB71118DF406}
   {1DBC55AD-2DE7-40EB-9313-CCBB4CD62C32}
   {2E239560-4823-48DD-8109-602009A3E307}
   {3CF1F131-77FB-4B1F-8A41-36A9FA426E8D}
   {40028E3D-7D7F-4550-A3FC-2C235B0B039A}
   {5821079A-6031-4B35-9D9F-4FC5ABC4D5C1}
   {639654A3-7D1F-4DF3-80F1-E71F345FA06C}
   {6B38C924-2A16-4DD7-9AAC-D5C92CFB458F}
   {6F88ADD8-3DEB-40C3-AE86-CE73594854A1}
   {730C52B0-D02E-40B9-8C17-7E055B54E6C8}
   {994AA426-EF0C-4095-96A6-46440E91D110}
   {9DE44E03-FC33-403B-A805-6D504AC1804F}
   {AF96B601-1866-4453-BCD2-25748BA81985}
   {B8DEA63D-A932-4A9F-A6F8-56278C86DB5E}
   {C60D438D-6AEA-404A-9457-24C6F3D90263}
   {C9054CF9-A3FA-44DD-8676-540E4152CD7D}
   {C9C4A971-D72B-4E69-8C5A-42AC684957FB}
   {E42BD2C8-5D31-4431-9BA4-DCCBE43135A5}
   {EF660298-9578-41BC-84AD-39C2C4595F99}
8. Exit the Registry Editor and press Win+R again.
9. Type %AppData% and click the OK button.
10. From AppData to Local, then open Google.
11. Go to Chrome and open User Data.
12. Double-click Default and open the Local Storage folder.
13. Delete the following files:
    http_wallpapers.dl.myway.com_0.localstorage
    http_wallpapers.dl.myway.com_0.localstorage-journal
    http_wallpapers.dl.tb.ask.com_0.localstorage
    http_wallpapers.dl.tb.ask.com_0.localstorage-journal