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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: December 01, 2006
- Total Downloads: 14,109
- Downloads last week: 3
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 186 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Arm your browser with yet another free toolbar, but this one is more notable for its added features than its main claims of actual PC protection. The Gadgetbar Toolbar for Internet Explorer lines up buttons to test your firewall and scan and fix your PC of spyware, viruses, and hackers. Now, it doesn't actually do any of this, but it gives a listing of different free sites and software to perform each of these tasks when you click on the respective button. It does, however, perform some tracks cleaning like clearing your IE cache, history, and cookies.
Its feature set is a little more impressive. Its radio station feature lets you select from any of the given stations by music genre and add additional stations. You'll be able to get quick weather forecasts by typing in the city name, after which the current temperature will remain in the pull-down menu on the bar. We can't offer any accolades for Gadgetbar's touted security features, but folks looking for quickie cleanups and some dashboard tunes can put this download to good use.
Publisher's description
From I.G. Headquarters :The Gadgetbar Toolbar protects your computer with very powerful and popular brand name anti-virus scans, spyware scans, Internet security scans, tune ups, and PC fixes. It doesn't spy on browsing habits or launch pop-up or pop-under advertisements, it doesn't hijack searches or modify pages you visit, it doesn't block uninstallation or create security holes & it will not make it easier for other people or programs to access your computer.
It does not collect or sell or rent your e-mail address or other personal information & even comes with powerful Registry Cleaner Scans, Disk Cleanup Scans, Disk Fragmentation Scans, Open Ports Scans, Cookie Cleaner, History Cleaner, Cache Cleaner, Multiple E-mail Notifier, Meta Search Engines, Free PC Tools, free TV & movies Online, PC Safety Scan, Toolbar Radio, Firewall Test & Attack-Tracking Software & Popup Blocker Tests.
Version 4.5.128 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 186 votes
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: The Gadgetbar Toolbar for Internet Explorer 4.5.128
Pros: best of the toolbars you made yet!
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: The Gadgetbar Toolbar for Internet Explorer 4.5.128
"What the deal with the dissappearing reviews?"
Pros: Drives me nuts when I try a software and whether I like it or not - the review dissappears after a while... whats up with that? I still got gadgetbar and still use it. I finally managed to get all the recommended maintenance programs for my pc that gadgetbar recommended and my pc has not gone on the fritz nor has it ever been in for repairs for over a year now! Hey - gadgetbar may not actually "do" the things that scan - but it leads you to where you can get them for free. naturally, there are a few site that ask you to go "pro" for a few bucks, but just stick with the free scans and you'll do fine. I joined IG Headquarters Information Station and man is that a riot! My knowledge of pcs has skyrocketed to a point wwhere I took a college course in pc repair and practically blazed through it with high scores from what I learned at the info station.. I graduate in next year and already got my family popped up about the whole thing and as a graduation present their helping me open my own repair shop! taking after ig's shoes there!
Cons: nothing negative my friend.... just sayin thanx!
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7 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: The Gadgetbar Toolbar for Internet Explorer 4.5.128
"Ray46, Dude - you don't know what you're talking about..."
Pros: I have had Gadgetbar for about 6 weeks now and even though I went through all of Gadgetbar's menus at first for curiosity - I use what I want and when I want it on regular basis with Gadgetbar. Who cares if one of the menus has 80 items within all of the submenus together? Use the links and stuff you need... It's a waste of your time if you're just going to sit there and go to the end of all the menus every day. How weird are u?
A few of my friends and family use Gadgetbar. That's how I foun d out about it. None of us use it less than several times a week. Dude, if you're not interested - then say you're not interested and go your way...
Gadgetbar has saved me tons of money by not having to buy a virus scan, spyware scan programs, firewalls, PC cleaner programs and more... I owe Gadgetbar a lot for finding bad stuff on my PC and getting rid of it.
Cons: I don't like it when someone gives a reply on a software when they never even gave it a fair glance. It not only messes up opportunities for someone else - but it makes me mad that I might miss a good program cause someone gave it a dumb review.
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13 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Version: The Gadgetbar Toolbar for Internet Explorer 4.5.128
"I use both IE & Firefox - and there is some NEW NEWS about Gadgetbar...."
Pros: All those popular search engines the other guys complained were missing are there... Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc... Google has been the default search engine ever since the toolbar was first designed.
There are 2, possibly 3 menus that also drop down into 4, maybe 5 sub-menus with lots of other sites or diagnostic downloads... But unless you having really serious trouble with your PC, there's no need to sift through all the sub-menus too. So if the number of menus is too large for you - don't go through them. After all, you won't even need them unless you're trying to fix a serious PC problem.
Plus, I noticed that Gadgetbar allows you to enter through the "toolbar options" where you have the choice to "delete" or "add" from the toolbar whatever you wish to "delete" or "add" to the toolbar.
After checking, there's nearly 100,000 users to this puppy already and it's not even a year old yet.... I guess that's pretty good. I removed more spyware and more viruses from my PC using the Gadgetbar than the usual programs I use are capable of... That was impressive.
The primary reason I even have this bar now is because it has ALL the POPULAR search engines and ALL the POPULAR meta search engines too. Im a search junkie and it's important for me to find what i want.
Plus, I noticed Gadgetbar has "Torrent Search Engines" too. That is cool cause I like to watch movies online.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: The Gadgetbar Toolbar for Internet Explorer 4.5.128
"Kant beeleeve its been hear all this time and I never seen it..."
Pros: Dis is by far da cooldest, hottest, watchamacallit, doodad, gadgetwadget, wickeydobeedad of all time of toolbar hiztorie!!!! Dun gotz me my 1st PC (USED - butt hay, knot everybuddy kin afford to hav whut thay want)...
I DO - NOT have the kind uv muney 2 b spending on antiviruz scan prograhamz, spywhere scan prograhamz, and all thuh junk necessarrie to manetane a cumpeuter properlie.
Gadgetbar haz definitely givin me thuh test too proove weather ore knot it iz wurthy of itz klames... YUP... I haz saved me thuh muney and have gottun whut I kneed too manetane a cumputer..
Thankx I Gee Hedquarturs fur givin this stuff out fur free too us all as knot all uv us kan afforde manetenanze prograhamz or even find kool stufff out their four phree.
Most uv all - I am luckey enuff too livv close too your cumpenny - sew I am happie too say that thuh cumpeuter I hav, I gott fur phree from yew!!!
Yew guyz and yur cumpenny arr sew kool too me and sew menny uther peepole bye given theeze cumpeuterz and softwarze four phree too us! I.G. Headquarters and Gadgetbar - you guys are TOPS on my list of cool people! (I thought you deserved proper spelling for that little outburst of admiration of mine).
Bye thuh waye, mie sisstur kneedz a cumpeuter two and klames she just kneedz wun two gett hur emale... Nothin spesshull. Shee allsew kwallifys four publick aide - - sew kan shee git a pee see 4 phree two?
I whill hav hur kall yew guyz too goe thru thuh propur chanulls. Mutch apreesheateid four evureetheeng thuus farr!
Gadgetbar ROCZ!
Cons: Two kool too hav ankneetheeng too cumplane uhbowt!
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