Removing traces of Poker software from Browser

[Robb]

I downloaded Empire temporarily on my girlfriends laptop. I uninstalled the software but it leaves the text "Empire Poker" in the Internet Explorer/Tools drowdown menu.

It's probably not a big deal but I don't know if her work would frown on her having the software on there (or at one time having it installed).

Anyone know how I can remove that?

I did a search but didn't see a related post.

Thank you,
Robb

[the_joker]

Try Tools -> Manage add-ons, then disable it. I'm not sure off hand how to completely remove it. On my system I noticed party poker did a similar thing and this worked. Pretty rude installing IE addons without your knowledge if you ask me.

[Robb]

Hi joker,
Thanks for the reply.

I assume you are referring to the 'Tools' dropdown inside the browser. If so I have no option called 'Manage Add-ons'. And no right click option is displayed when I right click on the Empire text.

Any ideas? I'm on XP and IE6.0

[dsw1977]

I don't know the answer to your question, but wanted to add that even after you uninstall, an Empire folder remains in C:\Program Files (or wherever you installed it) that contains hand histories and maybe something else that I don't recall at the moment.

[Tacjedi]

Also you may simply want to run an anti-spyware program.

Ad-aware has a free version. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot is another good one.

[smartalecc5]

Go to your registry keys, click local machine, cick current user, program files ( I think), and then see if empire poker folder is there. Delete the empire folder if there.

[tylerdurden]

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Also you may simply want to run an anti-spyware program.

Ad-aware has a free version. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot is another good one.

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While it's a good idea to run Adaware, it won't remove this cruft party puts into MSIE. I also tried BHOdemon, which is for removing "browser help objects" (a lot of the MSIE "plugin" type annoyances are BHOs), but it didn't get it either. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[gusly]

[ QUOTE ]
While it's a good idea to run Adaware, it won't remove this cruft party puts into MSIE. I also tried BHOdemon, which is for removing "browser help objects" (a lot of the MSIE "plugin" type annoyances are BHOs), but it didn't get it either. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Just run regedit, click on "My Computer" at the top of the tree. Do a CTRL+F to find "Empire Poker" and you'll be taken to the associated key. It should show up under the IE Extensions. Just highlight the key and delete it. The Empire cruft will be gone.

If editing your registry makes you nervous, don't do this.

[Robb]

Ok did some poking around.

To delete it off my girlfriends machine - deleting all instances in the Registry of EmpirePoker did the trick.

Gusly was correct on the location of the exact key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/INTERNET EXPLORER/EXTENSIONS/{77E.....etc.)

Your filename may not start with 77E so open the file to confirm there are 4 or 5 references to Empire.

If you've uninstalled the software, delete the whole 77E file.

If you aren't uninstalling the software and just want to get rid of the reference in IE:
Delete the key inside the file called 'MenuText'. I don't know what deleting any of the other keys or the whole file will do if you still have the software installed. Since I'm not a Registry expert all I can post is what worked for me.

In XP, the EmpirePoker reference was removed from IE instantly. On the Windows2000 machine I think I had to restart but I'm not positive.

[smartalecc5]

good reply