If you get an amazing free offer to put smilies and nice stationery in your emails don't accept it if it's hotbar. I did and found out that it absolutely swamps my system with spyware.

And no uninstall feature. I have emailed them (no reply so far).

Hotbar again !
Poor you!
It's a pain to remove I have done it several times Together with Byter
The uninstaller is actually on Hotbars home page
page with the loader
http://hotbar.com/downloads/HbUninst.exe
but it leaves a program hidden to continue sending info
But There is a program called spywareblaster (download this Now!)http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
from which can stop this running (and save you from attracting more)and also save us trying to trying to extract it from your registry
also download and runAdaware this will remove a lot of tags Adaware
So you order of work is
1) Run Hotbar uninstall
2)Run Adaware scan and delete
3)Run Spywareblaster .tick all the items hit the Protect against Checked items button and your done also just click the system snapshot button button this will wind back your computer to the saved state if there is another Program acting in a similar way to Hotbar And there are updates every few weeks
I Like this because it lets me roam sites where these generators exist without picking one up

That worked really well, Bedstor, thank you for the clear and simple advice.

One thing is weird but I'm not worried about it. After uninstalling hotbar I noticed that the hotbar features were still in my internet browser although gone from OE! But now that Spywareblaster is in place perhaps it doesn't matter. But what's weird is that if I go again to Add/Remove programs, the list of programs does not include anything which admits that it is be Hotbar stuff!

I ran Adaware after my latest access and found no new spyware files.

[No. No I will not download anything that offers to stop popups. I have learned my lesson.]

The way to get the Hotbar graphics out is to try to locate the place in the Registry and delete the entry
Most basic and direct way is to Press Start >Run>type regedit in this box press OK
Then when the window opens click on Edit(top of screen) then press Find from the menu then press F3 to find the Next occurrence repeat until you get a "finished searching" notice
Now in this box type Hotbar and report back how many time it comes up?
Do NOT attempt to delete yet if you do it in the wrong place you can cause real trouble The only safe place to delete is under the sections marked:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
These are the main front doors
Anywhere else is Dangerous ground Leave alone!
What may be of help to get rid of the remnants is to download this program Easycleanerwhich will sweep the non working bits of Hotbar out of your registry and speed up your computer
info read 1st Has clear screenshots http://www.toniarts.com/ecleane.htm
Like to give it a try?
download link:
http://www.toniarts.com/files/EC2BETA2.exe
(latest version)

Bedstor, I have copied your post into the 'computer problems' file on my hard drive in case I need it -- many thanks for your trouble. I hope everyone who reads this copies the information, too, in case they ever need it. It just takes a moment of weakness (or feeblemindedness in my case -- I knew better) and a person can download some trash that will cause problems.

I found that the games link still works on the hotbar remnant on my browser screen, and that's kinda neat.

But thanks to your recommendation, I have not had one piece of spyware since installing Spywareblaster. I will send them $10.

Okay, but it's better than nothing.

i know they show registry keys at the top of the computer peramid... is that one of the places experts go to clean and make the computer run faster. right now i only know buying more RAM or maybe a new chip increases speed or is it a new circuit board. maybe i should just delete unwanted programs, but i still find stuff in my C:drive program files that my friend told me not to touch because it will effect registry... i don't know why he's worried though these files aren't in add/delete programs list?

I would advise that no one download anything at all. Not unless you have fully read and understand the licensing agreement. These nearly all contain a statement saying that you give your permission to view their affiliates ads in the future. Some of these freeware items wait a month or two to start generating stuff onto your system making you forget which software was recently installed and you will look elsewhere for the trouble. Remember this is not a something for nothing world.

There are two main rules to internet downloads:

1. No advertised downloaded programs on the internet are truly free. If they cost nothing they probably either track you or add you to a mailing list for future solicitaions. Paul Lutus may be exempt from this and others like him but they also do not advertise.
2. See rule 1