{"id":1137,"date":"2010-11-29T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2010\/11\/29\/uninstall-bing-bar\/"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:09:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T14:09:26","slug":"uninstall-bing-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2010\/11\/29\/uninstall-bing-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninstall Bing Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wpid-1291035791262.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found this when I opened my laptop lid the last two days.<\/p>\n<p>I Google Goggles&#8217;d it (took a picture of it with the Goggles app on my HTC EVO) &amp; I knew easily exactly what I needed.<\/p>\n<p>I did see link after link to Win XP info, of course. Most recent thing that installed this month is &#8220;the Bing bar&#8221; so I uninstalled that (1. It doesn&#8217;t work in FireFox. 2. It does work in IE. 3. My primary browser is FireFox, the only time to open IE is NOT for searching. 4. I have a short search list: Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo.)<\/p>\n<p>mswinext.exe is associated with today&#8217;s Bing. It&#8217;s not in my services running module now that I&#8217;ve uninstalled that Bing Bar.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll update this topic if all is well or not. It&#8217;s something I can&#8217;t abide by: errors upon logging in, They don&#8217;t keep you from logging in, but they are there sole to bother you most times when it should go smoothly. Get them, eradicate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this when I opened my laptop lid the last two days. I Google Goggles&#8217;d it (took a picture of it with the Goggles app on my HTC EVO) &amp; I knew easily exactly what I needed. I did see link after link to Win XP info, of course. Most recent thing that installed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[378,106,376,359,380,379,375,382,374,377,381],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-bing","tag-firefox","tag-google-goggles","tag-htc-evo","tag-ie","tag-msn","tag-mswinext-exe","tag-wikipedia","tag-win-7","tag-wp","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1408,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2011\/07\/21\/backup-apk\/","url_meta":{"origin":1137,"position":0},"title":"Getting Help Installing Android Market Apps from phone to a new tablet","author":"Maisy","date":"Thursday, July 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I bought Bejeweled 2 on my HTC Evo in the past several months. 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