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Sadly, the usual uninstallers of those programs DO NOT remove their "enforcement of pre-installing" extensions into Google Chrome web browser. ("Another program on your computer added an extension that may change the way Chrome works.") | |
This guidance only contains instructions for Google Chrome. | |
Enter about://extensions into the adress bar of Google Chrome. | |
Click on "Details" for the respective extension you want to stop from being pre-installed. | |
Copy the extension ID from the URL (the text after "id="). | |
Now remove all these in the registry existing keys at the following paths: | |
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome\Extensions\<id> | |
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Google\Chrome\Extensions\<id> | |
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome\Extensions\<id> |