Should I remove Instair Speed Dial?
What percent of users and experts removed it?
50% remove it50% keep it
What do people think about it?
(click star to rate)
How common is it?
Reach 0.0009%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 19.34 days
68.08 days >
Average installed length: 35.77 days
Versions
Version | Distribution |
1.0 |
100.00% |
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Instair Speed Dial
from Instair
What is Instair Speed Dial?
From the EULA: "Instair is a lookup tool that finds instant results from Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Amazon by highlighting words online and shares results with friends through Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Email. These actions may interact with your social network tools, Instair web services and third-party websites, services, applications and widgets. Automated Data Collection: When you access Instair’s websites or if you use the Instair extension, your internet browser automatically transmits data for technical reasons. The following data is collected in our servers: The words, sentences, pages that you highlight in web pages and want to search, translate, share etc. via Instair. This content will be buffered anonymously for a short period of time on our servers (Instair web services) in order to send it to your selected Third Party Services (Amazon, Google, and etc.). The content will not be stored on our servers and also will not be parsed or forwarded to others. Please not that this data is collected solely for technical reasons and is never identified with a specific person at any time."
About (from Instair)
Highlight words, find instant results from Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Amazon, and share with friends. Get results from Google Search, Google Translate, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, and more. Share results with friends by Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Email.
Overview
- Integrates into the web browser
Program details
URL: www.instair.net
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Instair Speed Dial\
Uninstaller: "C:\Program Files\Instair Speed Dial\unins000.exe"
Estimated size: 5.75 MB
Files installed by Instair Speed Dial
Program executable: | instairupdate.exe |
Path: | C:\Program Files\instair speed dial\ie\instairupdate.exe |
MD5: | bb6ccbab1d14a61a3d37631b331ad3be |
Additional files:
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SpeedDial.dll - InstairPlugin
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acceleratetab-setupdp08291.exe (by AccelerateTab) - AccelerateTab
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unins000.exe - Setup/Uninstall
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NewTabsinstair.exe
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sqlite3.dll
Behaviors exhibited
Internet Explorer BHO
- SpeedDial.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Instair Speed Dial' with the class of {48A789BF-F6D6-4930-9C8B-77855A63EDE1}.
How do I remove Instair Speed Dial?
You can uninstall Instair Speed Dial from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program Instair Speed Dial, click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Instair Speed Dial.
- If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.
How do I reset my web browser?
If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Instair Speed Dial you can restore them to their previous default settings.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
- Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset. Select the Delete personal settings check box if you would also like to remove search providers, Accelerators and home pages. When Internet Explorer finishes applying default settings, click Close, and then click OK.
- The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.
Mozilla Firefox
- At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
- To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
- When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.
Google Chrome
- Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
- Select Settings. In the "Search" section, click Manage search engine. Check if (Default) is displayed next to your preferred search engine. If not, mouse over it and click Make default. Mouse over any other suspicious search engine entries that are not familiar and click X to remove them.
- When the "Show Home button" checkbox is selected, a web address appears below it. If you want the Homepage button to open up a different webpage, click Change to enter a link.
- Restart Google Chrome.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 41%
Win Vista (SP2) 6%
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 50%
Keep it 50%
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AVERAGE INSTALL LIFESPAN
35.77
Days
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 |
70.59% |
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Windows 10 |
23.53% |
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Windows Vista |
5.88% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
Windows 7 Ultimate |
41.18% |
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Windows 8 |
17.65% |
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Windows 7 Home Premium |
17.65% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
11.76% |
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Windows Vista Home Premiu... |
5.88% |
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Windows 8 Single Language |
5.88% |
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Geography
40.91% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
United States |
40.91% |
United Kingdom |
9.09% |
Brazil |
4.55% |
TN |
4.55% |
UA |
4.55% |
France |
4.55% |
RS |
4.55% |
Australia |
4.55% |
India |
4.55% |
Republic Of Moldova |
4.55% |
Romania |
4.55% |
Croatia |
4.55% |
SR |
4.55% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard |
33.33% |
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Acer |
26.67% |
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Toshiba |
20.00% |
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Dell |
13.33% |
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Samsung |
6.67% |
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6.67% |
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6.67% |
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6.67% |
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Samsung 300E4C/300E5C/300... |
6.67% |
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OEGStone MS-7788 |
6.67% |
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MSI MS-7786 |
6.67% |
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