Even if it is 2014, here are still a number of issues (related to the web) that might trouble us here and now.

For example, if you download an app such as Vuze, Skype or even AVG, it’s only a matter of time until they will add a few toolbars to your computer or even change the default home page and browser.

So, here’s how you clear up the mess caused by toolbars:

#1: Internet Explorer

Even if this browser will not let a toolbar run automatically, this can happen especially when you’re hardly paying any attention. But to make sure you get rid of them, click on the cog in the upper right-hand corner and select Manage Add-Ons. You’ll see a new window open with the toolbars installed. Highlight the ones you don’t like and click the Disable button.

#2: Google Chrome

With Google planning to ban all toolbars by June this year, it’s pretty clear that this browser prefers browsers ever lesser than the other two. But just in case you install a toolbar, all you have to do is select the menu icon at the top-right hand corner. Select Extensions in the left-hand navigation column. Scroll down until you find the toolbar you are looking for and uncheck the Enabled checkbox or even click the trash icon.

#3: Mozilla Firefox

It’s even more difficult to accidentally enable a toolbar in Firefox but it does happen. So, for this, click on the orange button at the top right corner of your screen and select Add-ons. In the navigation column that opens on the left-hand side, select Extensions. Find the toolbar that you would like to remove and click Disable. Make sure you restart your browser as soon as you have disabled all toolbars that you would like to.