AOL is a search engine and the home page for firefox and IE all versions. If AOL is still present in your add new hardware list the try to again remove that manually. For this go start menu click it then click on to control panel. Select add & remove programs. After locating click on to remove button. If you are having vista then in control panel click programs and features and then uninstall AOL toolbar from there or with the help of AOL toolbar uninstaller you can proceed next.

After the following step is processed, uninstall wizard will open. By clicking on uninstall button a dialog box will be opened in which there will be an option reboot now. When you select the reboot now button it restricts to confiscate or remove folders and files related to AOL toolbar until you reboot your computer system.

After your computer has been restarted you can try to remove files and folders from your computer system. Go to start menu then my computer then enter in that drive where AOL was located then delete the AOL toolbar folder from that destination.

After you have deleted check for any other files and folder present in the hard drive by searching through search option available in start menu. If any files related to AOL is available then delete it from there. After this run a software again to clean up system\'s registry.

If it is still present after going through manual procedure then use third party AOL toolbar installer software to remove it from your computer.