{"id":160,"date":"2006-12-10T15:58:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2006\/12\/10\/googletoolbarnotifierexe\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T13:58:40","slug":"googletoolbarnotifierexe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2006\/12\/10\/googletoolbarnotifierexe\/","title":{"rendered":"GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed you have this process running, even if you&#8217;re not using Internet Explorer (I want to distance myself from any IE usage by saying I installed the toolbar for my parents :)).  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/google-is-your-default-search.html\">This post<\/a> explains everything in detail. It&#8217;s an agent which tries to keep google as the default search engine. You can simply disable it in the toolbar settings by unchecking the item &#8220;Notify me on settings change&#8221;.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, it didn&#8217;t work in my case&#8230; I disabled the checkbutton on all 3 user accounts. I did notice I have a slighter newer version than the one on the google system blog: I have 4.0.1020. This version is even not documented yet in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/toolbar\/bin\/static.py?page=version_info.html\">Google Toolbar Changelog<\/a>?? I decided to uninstall since my parents probably don&#8217;t use it anyway. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed you have this process running, even if you&#8217;re not using Internet Explorer (I want to distance myself from any IE usage by saying I installed the toolbar for my parents :)). This post explains everything in detail. It&#8217;s an agent which tries to keep google as the default search engine. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2006\/12\/10\/googletoolbarnotifierexe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}