Today's the day that the Google Toolbar finally convinced me to uninstall it.

Recently, it had gone and updated itself and adding to the startup programs a notifier program. Nothing makes me more mad than yet another program that thinks it has to run, and stay running, at startup.

Today I updated my two work computers to IE7. I have been running the Windows Live Toolbar and found its search results quite great, and decided to change my IE's default search from Google to Live Search. Hmm, not listed. So I went to the Add Search Providers to Internet Explorer 7 page and selected it from there.

Google Toolbar went on the offensive and tried to block, giving me a prompt as to whether I really wanted to do such a thing.

That was the last straw. Now that I'm happy with Live Search's result and now that I use Live Writer for blogging, I don't have a reason to use Google's Toolbar anymore. Time to move on and get a bit of real estate back in my IE window.

(Edit: corrected typo. And uninstalled the Google toolbar from more machines.)