Whenever I log into Windows XP, there is an annoying Toolbar that loads in my Taskbar, called Search Assistant (something to do with a program called Blaze Find that I have removed, somekind of AdWare I think). I have unchecked it (from the Toolbars menu on the Taskbar) time and time again and restarted, but this has no effect. I have also checked through my the startup items in MSConfig and it's not in there.

try AdAware or Spybot s&D.... they're free

I forgot: find them in google or yahoo... and be sure to update them before checking the system... there's an option in both for web update gg

Tried that, still hasn't gone away.

I am having the smae problem. Except I managed to get rid of the search assistant toolbar from my computer. However, I can no longer save my taskbar settings. I want to have a quick launch toolbar, but I do not want to have to 'unlock taskbar', add quick launch, resize, and relock my toolbar every time I load windows. Any help in solving this issue would be appreciated. Brad PS - Spyware sucks

I contacted Microsoft support and it has taken me a month to get this same problem fixed. This is what I did to fix the problem. 1. Download the "HijackThis" tool from the following link. HijackThis 1.97.7 http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe 2. Locate and double-click the "HijackThis.exe" file. 3. I I checked any file that had "search bar, search page, search assitant, search..." I think you get my drift. 4. Click "fix checked". After I did these, I changed my toolbar preferences and then restarted. Then I knew it was fixed since "Search assistant" didn't come up. Hope this helps.