This is really annoying. I installed uTorrent to get something that it turned out I already had. Either because I wasn’t paying attention or I wasn’t wearing my glasses, I didn’t notice that in the install process, they added the “uTorrent Toolbar”! In general, I hate toolbars. (Who doesn’t?) I use just one: my favorites toolbar in Chrome (or the Links toolbar in IE). But as you can see in the following screenshot, there is an extra toolbar:

Okay, fair enough. Big deal. All I have to do is go in and uninstall the toolbar. I do it. Nothing. It’s still there. Reboot. Nothing. So I uninstall uTorrent itself. Nothing. Reboot. Nothing!

I did some other things. Before I started and several times in between, I right-clicked on the toolbar. Sure enough, there were options. But none of them allowed me to get rid of this toolbar. It took me forever to notice the little green “u” in the upper right-hand corner of the window! Right-click on that, and there is an option: uninstall. That was it. A second later, it was gone. (I did have to reopen the window.)

Why did this have to be so difficult? I guess this is how Chrome deals with toolbars. Live and learn, I guess.