Vista won't shut down because of Appbar bullet

Its a brand new computer and I haven't added anything but some music to
it. Also my task manager doesnt work(It runs but won't open). And appbar
means application bar (like the bar with the start button on it). When I
first used my computer it had a clock and a calender and some other
stuff in the background and now that doesnt show up either.


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rino

O and I got the music straight from my PC, not from a website so I'm not
worried about viruses from that.


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rino

"rino" <guest DeleteThis @unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Its a brand new computer and I haven't added anything but some music to
> it. Also my task manager doesnt work(It runs but won't open). And appbar
> means application bar (like the bar with the start button on it). When I
> first used my computer it had a clock and a calender and some other
> stuff in the background and now that doesnt show up either.
>

If malware is running on the machine, that's the first thing it takes out
is Task Manager so that you can't see what is running on the machine.

You can use Process Explorer to see what is running on the machine and kill
the task.

The link tells you about PE and what you can do to seek out malware running
on the machine, like a DLL that can be malware being hosted by a legitimate
process.

<http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Hidden_Backdoors_Trojan_Horses_and_Rootkit_Tools_in_a_Windows_Environment.html>

You can get PE here.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

You can user CurrPorts that runs on Vista, because Active Ports doesn't.

Maybe, you have done something to disable the clock and calendar from
showing, and you need to enable it again.

"rino" <guest DeleteThis @unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> O and I got the music straight from my PC, not from a website so I'm not
> worried about viruses from that.
>

If you look up Appbar Bullet by using Google, you'll see a lot of people
are having problems with that application.

rino;87791 Wrote:
> I got a new Toshiba Notebook, 3 GB, 32bit.
> I can't shut it down. It says that Appbar Bullet is preventing it from
> shutting down. Anybody know how to fix this?
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> rino

AppBar is a trialware which lets your form to behave like an
Application Desktop Toolbar. Try to disable it from the startup list
using windows defender. Or else uninstall it through the control panel.
I do not know if this program is considered as a adware product. So no
harm in scanning your PC with one more good 3rd party freeware like
spybot or a-squared.

You may also get your hijackthis log auto-analysed at 'HijackThis
Logfileauswertung' (http://www.hijackthis.de) .

For general troubleshooting tips on what to do if Vista does not shut
down visit 'WinVistaClub : Windows Vista does not shutdown'
(http://www.winvistaclub.com/t48.html) .


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I don't know what the appbar would be named as. There is no appbar in
add/remove programs or in the search program. I can't use task manager
to close it because task manager won't even open. I tried to uninstall
the software that came with the computer but it wouldn't uninstall (just
sat at 0%) wtf did I do to it lol.


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rino