What is xVidly Toolbar?

xVidly is a download manager that is designed to help you browsing the Internet. When xVidly gets on your computer, it begins to mess up your computer, installs toolbar, changes search settngs, gets into all windows program files directory, change user settings and adds registry entries. Furthermore, when xVidly is activated it begins to display a huge amount of ads, banners and other things. For what? Just to earn money on your purchases. Subsequently appears in the browser toolbar of xVidly, which strongly impose your search. xVidly Toolbar also changes your homepage, browser settings, simply put, makes it difficult to work in a browser. In any case, don’t pull on the removal of this program. Get rid of it as soon as possible to avoid putting your PC at risk.

xvidly toolbar

How is xVidly Toolbar installed on your PC?

As other malicious software xVidly gets into computer bundled with other free programs. xVidly Toolbar installed on your PC without your consent. Why this is happening? Because the most of users do not pay attention to the features during software installation. How to avoid this? The main thing is to follow closely the installation programs that you download from the free sites. do not always agree on the installation programs are unknown to you. Remember that it is better to spend a little more time to setup careful than face problems later

How to remove xVidly Toolbar from your PC?

If you want to divest your computer of it, you will need to follow these steps. Please follow them carefully, as if you miss something, the xVidly Toolbar and search will not be completely removed. The program does not contain any uninstall program so the only way is to delete it manually.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have xVidly Toolbar in their database. They also can help you reset browser settings. You can try to use them for removing xVidly Toolbar.

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You can try both of these products to remove xVidly Toolbar

Or uninstall xVidly Toolbar manually:

Uninstalling from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find xVidly Toolbar.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find xVidly Toolbar and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find xVidly Toolbar, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

After that remove xVidly Toolbar from your browser.

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Type chrome://extensions/.
  3. Find xVidly Toolbar.
  4. Click the trash can icon to remove it.
  5. Also look for other suspicious extensions.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Type about:addons.
  3. Go to Extensions.
  4. Choose xVidly Toolbar.
  5. Click Disable or Remove button.
  6. If remove button is not available – use one of the antispyware products above.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable xVidly Toolbar.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – use one of the antispyware products above.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Remove following registry entries:


Key: HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects
Value: SweetPacks A8 Toolbar
Data: prxtbxVi0.dll
Key: HKCUSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects
Value: midicairus2 Toolbar
Data: prxtbxVid.dll

Then remove following files:


tbxVid.dll
uninstall.exe
xVidly1ToolbarHelper.exe
hk64tbxVi0.dll
hk64tbxVid.dll
hktbxVi0.dll
hktbxVid.dll
ldrtbxVi0.dll
ldrtbxVid.dll
prxtbxVi0.dll
prxtbxVid.dll
tbxVi0.dll

And these folders


C:Program Filesxvidly1
C:Program Filesxvidly

Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

google chrome logo Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:

  1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
  2. Choose Settings.
  3. Click Show advanced settings.
  4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
  5. Click Reset browser settings.
  6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

mozilla firefox logo Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Go to Help.
  3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
  4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

internet explorer logo Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
  3. Click Internet options.
  4. Go to Advanced tab.
  5. Click Reset button.
  6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
  7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Information provided by: Alexey Abalmasov

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