Remove funmoods – Uninstall Guide

Posted by Muhammed Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2012

Funmoods is a free add-on for social networks Chat that gives you a huge collection of smileys. Like the default smileys for any social network, funmoods emoticons represent human emotions, facial gestures, tone of voice, and body language. But in addition to smileys for the social network, funmoods includes funny winks, glitter texts, animations, and much more.
However, everyone is not happy with this toolbar because of its browser hijacking behavior. Once it gets installed on the computer, it replaces the default home page and search page with its own and also degrade the browser stability and performance.

Funmood Home Page

How to get rid of funmoods?

To remove funmoods from your computer, go to the Control Panel in your Start menu, then click on Uninstall/Remove Programs, find funmoods Toolbar and click Remove. To complete the removal process, you need to reset the home page and default search engine.

How to remove funmoods from IE:

Go to Tools and then click Internet Options. On General tab, click Use Default.
Go to Tools and select Internet Options. In the first tab labeled General, Under Search click Settings then select your preferred search provider and click set as Default.

How to remove funmoods from FireFox:

Go to Tools, click Options. On General tab, click to select your default homepage setting
Open Firefox and click the downward arrow button next to the search box. Then select Manage Search Engines. Select funmoods Search and click Remove.

How to remove funmoods from Chrome:

1. Click on the icon ‘Customize and control Google Chrome’, select ‘settings.
2. Click the ‘Manage search engine’ button and choose ‘Google’ and make it your default search engine. Remove funmoods Search
 3. To set a home page, click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar and Select Settings. Under Appearance, put a tick mark on Show Home button and change the home page. Also set Open specific pages when you open Chrome. Go to the "On startup" section and click "Set pages" to enter the web addresses.  

How do I remove funmoods from newly opened tabs on my browser?

In Internet Explorer - to remove funmoods search from new tabs, go to Tools -> Internet options -> general -> tabs settings, and set the "when a new tab is opened, open" drop down, and choose "The new tab page".
In Firefox- Go to Tools and then add-ons, click Options, then select Advanced and uncheck the first option "Use funmoods as enhanced search for new tab".