How to Remove Launchpage.org Search Bar (Removal Guideline)

Are you being displayed search page by launchpage.org whenever you open Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers? Don’t worry, this removal guide has all the information that you would need to know to remove launchpage.org from your computer permanently.

What is launchpage.org?

launchpage.org is an adware program. The most prominent change made by this infection is to redirect your web browser pages to http://launchpage.org. Once you are on that site you are shown useless advertisements only to generate pay-per-click revenue. Now, to restore your original web surfing experience you must uninstall launchpage.org adware from your computer by using our removal techniques.

How launchpage.org comes into a computer?

Most probably you installed this adware on your computer while you were installing a freeware which was bundled with this infection. Suddenly, you found your search page is being redirected to dubious advertisements site recommending useless browser toolbars and other malicious products. At this point, we would suggest you to follow our removal steps and you will be able to delete launchpage.org search page from your computer.

We’ll tell you why proper removal necessary. By proper elimination of this infection we mean complete removal so that it can never reappear on your computer. You can achieve this if you implement our removal methods because our methods have been designed to completely get rid of launchpage.org infection from your computer.

What are the symptoms of launchpage.org

Identifying this adware is simple if you look for these signs:

Whenever you visit a webpage you are shown an advertising banner. Popups appearing while web surfing usually recommend fake updates or useless software. You may have unknowingly installed some other infection on your computer.

How prevent launchpage.org infection?

Entry of this infection can be easily avoided by taking some precautions. Verify the security ratings of a freeware before installing it on your computer. Go for Custom or Advanced mode of software installation and stop the installation of unknown applications. Periodically scan your computer using an anti-malware and an antivirus program.

How to remove launchpage.org?

Here we will describe the steps of how to remove launchpage.org from your computer. We will provide removal steps for manual and software techniques. Choose one technique and perform its steps in correct order to eliminate this adware from your computer.

Step 1: Uninstall launchpage.org from control panel

Uninstall launchpage.org browser hijacker from control panel which you have accidentally got installed recently. Uninstall recently installed unwanted & unknown programs as well.

Follow the below given instructions to uninstall it from control panel.

1. Click on Start button –> click on Control Panel –> click on Add & Remove program or uninstall a program. You will get a window which have listed all the installed program on your computer.
2. Uninstall launchpage.org program. (If launchpage.org won’t uninstall itself then use REVO Uninstaller Tool to remove it forcefully.) Click here to know more How to Uninstall any software with Revo Uninstaller Tool

perform its steps in correct order to eliminate this adware from your computer.

Step 2: Delete launchpage.org from browsers

Internet Explorer

Remove launchpage.org homepage from Internet Explorer.

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key to activate menu bar).
3. Click on Internet Options.
4. Click on General Tab.
5. Remove launchpage.org homepage from there and set your homepage url as you want at startup.

Remove launchpage.org add-ons from Internet Explorer.

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key to activate menu bar.)
3. Click on Manage Addons.
4. In left side pane, click on Toolbars & Extensions.
5. In right side pane, right-click on launchpage.org extension and click on disable / remove also disable all the unwanted extensions from there.

Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Internet Explorer (Removal Guide).

Remove launchpage.org search engine from Internet Explorer.

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key to activate menu bar.)
3. Click on Manage Addons.
4. In left side pane, click on Search Provider.
5. In right side pane, right-click on google and click on set as default
6. Now remove launchpage.org extension from there and also remove all the unwanted addons.

If above three steps couldn’t remove launchpage.org then you have to remove it by resetting Internet Explorer.

Remove launchpage.org by resetting Internet Explorer (Restore IE to its Default Settings)

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on Tools menu (Press F10 key to activate menu bar.)
3. Click on Internet Options.
4. Click on Advanced Tab.
5. Click on Reset Button.
6. A confirmation dialog box will come up. Check mark the check-box “Delete Personal Settings”, then click Reset button on it.

Click here to know more How to Reset Internet Explorer as Default (Reset Guide).

Mozilla Firefox

Remove launchpage.org homepage from Mozilla Firefox.

1. Open Firefox browser.
2. Click on menu icon.
3. Click on Options.
4. Remove launchpage.org url from home page field and set the url as you want.

Remove launchpage.org add-ons from Mozilla Firefox.

1. Open Firefox browser.
2. Click on menu icon.
3. Click on Addons.
4. In left side pane, click on Extensions.
5. In right side pane, select the launchpage.org extension and remove / disable it. Remove all the unwanted add-ons from there as well.

Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Firefox (Addon Removal Guide).

Remove launchpage.org search engine from Mozilla Firefox.

1. Open Firefox browser.
2. Click on menu icon.
3. Click on options.
4. In left side pane, click on Search.
5. In right side pane, go to “Default Search Engine” section and select google search engine as default search engine.
6. Go to “One-Click Search Engines” section on the same page, select and remove launchpage.org from there.

Reset Mozilla Firefox (Restore to default setting)

1. Open Firefox browser.
2. Click on menu icon.
3. Click on Help menu.
4. Click on Troubleshooting Information.
5. Click on Refresh Firefox button.

Click here to know more How to Reset Firefox as Default (Reset Guide).

Google Chrome

Remove launchpage.org homepage from Google Chrome.

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Click on menu icon
3. Click on Settings
4. Go to “On start-up” section of the settings page. Remove launchpage.org URL from there and add url as you want to open at startup.
   

Remove launchpage.org extension from Google Chrome

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Click on menu icon.
3. Click on “More Tools”
4. Click on Extensions.
   An extension settings page will open up where all the chrome’s extensions are listed.
5. Remove launchpage.org extension from there.
6. Also remove all the other unwanted extensions you found there.

Click here to know more How to Remove Addons from Google Chrome (Addon Removal Guide).

Remove launchpage.org search engine from Google Chrome

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Click on menu icon.
3. Click on “Settings”
4. Go to “Search Engine” section of the settings page.
5. Set google as your default search engine.
6. Click on “Manage Search Engines”
7. Remove launchpage.org search engine from there.

Reset Google Chrome (Restore chome to its default settings)

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Click on menu icon
3. Click on Settings
4. Scroll down and click on “advanced” in the bottom of the page. After click on advanced you’ll get more options below.
5. Scroll down more and go to “Reset and clean up” section. Now click on reset. It will ask you to reset chrome, click on reset button there.

Click here to know more How to Reset Google Chrome to Default Setting (Reset Guide.)