22Apple Removal Guide

Even though 22Apple.com offers to browse the web and access some of the most popular websites from one place, many computer users find this web page highly irritating. This is mostly due to the fact that it may seem impossible to remove this website set as home page and search engine of Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome browsers. The website is truly suspicious because it does not provide any information about its developers. Overall, you can delete 22Apple even if this may seem impossible at first. To find out what removal procedures you can employ, please continue reading and scroll down the page to find manual removal instructions.

22Apple lets you to browse the web using Google web search and allows you to connect to such websites as Facebook, Google, YouTube, Gmail, Yahoo, Twitter or Craigslist with one click. Of course, this is quite beneficial. But how did this page become your browser home page and search engine? It is most likely that the suspicious application was dropped onto your operating system alongside freeware or bundled downloads. Once this happens you are presented with a red apple icon on your desktop and every time you launch the browser - you are greeted with 22Apple.com home page.

It is not enough to delete 22Apple icon from the desktop, remove unwanted browser add-ons and change the search engine manually. In order, to reconfigure browser settings successfully you need to perform a few extra steps. Please follow the manual removal instructions presented below to remove 22Apple, and then install a reliable malware scanner to inspect the PC and make sure no malignant files require removal.

How to remove 22Apple manually?

Firstly find the shortcut of the infected browser and click Properties. Click on the Shortcut tab and navigate to the Target box where the last thing written should be chrome.exe/iexplore.exe or mozilla.exe, depending on the browser. Delete the additional text, click OK and continue with the removal guides below. Note that this procedure should be repeated on every running browser.

Delete from Google Chrome:

1. Open the browser and simultaneously tap Alt+F.
2. Navigate to Tools and click Extensions.
3. Find the unwanted add-on, click on the trash icon and select Remove.
4. Go to the menu on the left and click Settings.
5. Move to On Startup, select “Open a specific page”, click Set pages, overwrite 22Apple.com and click OK.
6. Move to Appearance, mark Show Home button, click Change, overwrite 22Apple.com and click OK.
7. Move to Search, click Manage search engines, select “X” to remove the unwanted search engine and click OK.

Delete from Internet Explorer:

1. Open the browser and simultaneously tap Alt+T for the Tools menu.
2. Select Internet Options.
3. Click on the General tab, overwrite the address set as Home Page and click OK.
4. Tap Alt+T again and select Manage Add-ons.
5. Select Search Providers from the menu on the left.
6. Select the preferred search engine and click Set as default.
7. Click on 22Apple and select Remove. Click Close.

Delete from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open the browser and simultaneously tap Alt+H.
2. Click Troubleshooting Information and select Reset Firefox.
3. Click Reset again and click Finish.