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    Removal of AVG Safe Search from google chrome browser

    I am using Chrome, IE and Firefox since long years on this system and use Google as the default search engine on all my browsers. Last week i dont know from where but AVG Safe Search got installed on my system and it became the default search engine as well as the home page of my browsers. Any how i managed to remove it from IE and Firefox bit it is not ready to leave my Chrome.

    I deleted it from everywhere except the installed programs list because it is not allowing me to uninstall it. No matter how many times i restart the computer, it just wont remove. Also there is no option to disable it from Chrome settings, atleast i am not able to find it. Whenever i open new tab, i see AVG safe search. Whenever i search anything in chrome, it searches with AVG. This is very annoying.

    Please let me know how do we get rid of this annoying stuff. Thanks.

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    Re: Removal of AVG Safe Search from google chrome browser

    Well, AVG itself has provided an official method to uninstall AVG Search from Google Chrome Browser. Here it is:
    • Open Chrome.
    • Click on 'Tools' (the wrench icon)
    • Click on 'Settings'
    • Locate the ‘Home page’ section, and choose ‘Use the New Tab page’.
    • Locate the 'Search' section, and choose your preferred search provider.
    • Close Chrome.


    You can see this image for reference:


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    Re: Removal of AVG Safe Search from google chrome browser

    There is also an alternate and easier way to get rid of this. This is how i did on my PC. Open My Computer, open C Drive. Clicked Program Files (If 64bit OS click Program Files (x86)), open AVG Safeguard Toolbar folder and open ChromeRes. Here you will find a file called nt. Simply right click this folder and rename it to something else. I named it as "nt-old". That's it. Now start the browser. Hopefully you will not see AVG again in Chrome.

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    Re: Removal of AVG Safe Search from google chrome browser

    Thanks for the help guys. Well I first followed the official steps provided by AVG and that worked me perfectly. So thanks for the help umaymah. Finally I got rid of that annoying stuff.

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