Vista won't shut down because of Appbar bullet

I got a new Toshiba Notebook, 3 GB, 32bit
I can't shut it down. It says that Appbar Bullet is preventing it fro
shutting down. Anybody know how to fix this

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rino

"rino" <> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
What is Appbar Bullet? The name sounds like it's some kind of malware. Did
you install something called Appbar Bullet? You can go to the Task Manager
and kill it there if you see it, before you shut the machine down. If you
don't know what it is then you might want to investigate Appbar Bullet. You
just might want to get it off the machine.

Its a brand new computer and I haven't added anything but some music t
it. Also my task manager doesnt work(It runs but won't open). And appba
means application bar (like the bar with the start button on it). When
first used my computer it had a clock and a calender and some othe
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" <> 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_i n_a_Windows_Environment.html>

You can get PE here.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...s/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" <> 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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have you been able to solve the problem by now??
Same thing has happened to me for a few days now...