Jump to content

Welcome to Geeks to Go - Register now for FREE

Need help with your computer or device? Want to learn new tech skills? You're in the right place!
Geeks to Go is a friendly community of tech experts who can solve any problem you have. Just create a free account and post your question. Our volunteers will reply quickly and guide you through the steps. Don't let tech troubles stop you. Join Geeks to Go now and get the support you need!

How it Works Create Account
Photo

Deleted "webbrowser" in regedit


  • Please log in to reply

#1
tjmcs

tjmcs

    Member

  • Member
  • PipPipPip
  • 329 posts

Was looking around at the programs and folders on my laptop and found one called "isearch". Found a removal for it and tried it. The removal called for using regedit to delete some keys. Learning computers so I gave it a try. Ha. Deleted something I should not have due to not reading the entire string the removal called for. I deleted "WebBrowser" from...HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser. How bad did I screw up and how do I get it back?

 

tjmcs


  • 0

Advertisements


#2
SleepyDude

SleepyDude

    Trusted Helper

  • Malware Removal
  • 4,974 posts

Hi,

 

Next time before doing registry changes make sure you create a System Restore point. I don't think you will have any problem because that key is missing, Internet Explorer will recreate the key when some changes are done to the Internet Explorer toolbar.


  • 0

#3
tjmcs

tjmcs

    Member

  • Topic Starter
  • Member
  • PipPipPip
  • 329 posts

Still kicking myself for not doing that. Thank you for the answer. I knew better.

 

tjmcs


  • 0

#4
Plastic Nev

Plastic Nev

    Member

  • Member
  • PipPipPip
  • 485 posts

Hi, it seems fortunate that you only deleted something that hopefully will rectify itself.

 

However, a little friendly advice, if you look round the entire forum or put in a search for registry cleaners, you will find we warn against ever using those cleaners or tampering with the registry. Unless fully acquainted with it, put a barbed wire fence around the registry and leave well enough alone. :D

 

It doesn't hurt to leave odd things in the registry, Windows is created and set up to ignore irrelevant registry entries.

 

Even our well informed malware removal people such as SleepyDude above, will leave the registry to specialised tools to remove the malware or other bad entries, as they have been created to do that safely without risking damage.

 

Nev.


  • 0






Similar Topics

0 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users

As Featured On:

Microsoft Yahoo BBC MSN PC Magazine Washington Post HP