How to Delete the Kiwee Toolbar
The Kiwee toolbar has features that people who use social networking sites might enjoy, like the ability to easily add emoticons on websites or send e-cards. Due to the difficulty in removing the toolbar once you install it, however, many people consider the Kiwee toolbar malware. When downloaded from a disreputable website, the Kiwee toolbar may also contain viruses and additional malware that spreads to the rest of your system. Though the Kiwee page provides steps for removal of the Kiwee toolbar, if those steps don't work, remove the toolbar files manually.
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Instructions
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Close any open programs that connect your computer to the Internet, including any Web browsers or messaging application. Click "Ctrl+Alt+Delete," click the "Processes" tab and click the entry labeled "kwtbaim.exe" in the list. Press the "End Process" button to stop the Kiwee toolbar from running on your computer.
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Navigate to the "Start" menu of your computer, click "Control Panel" and click "Add or Remove Programs" in the version of Windows prior to Windows Vista or "Uninstall a Program" in Windows Vista or Windows 7. When the "Add or Remove Programs" window opens, scroll through the program list to the "Kiwee" entry, right-click the entry and choose "Remove or Change" in older versions of Windows or the "Uninstall program" in Vista or 7. Continue clicking "Next" through the screens of the uninstaller that come up and then click "Uninstall" on the final page to remove the toolbar with the built-in Windows uninstaller tool.
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Delete any files in the "Control Panel" window that has "Kiwee" in the title by right-clicking each file and choosing "Delete." Click "Yes" to confirm that you want to delete each file when prompted. Close the "Control Panel" when you have deleted all the Kiwee files.
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Open the "Start" menu again, select "My Computer" or "Computer" and double-click the "Local Disk" or "C" drive. Double-click the "Program Files" folder, right-click the folder labeled "AGI" and choose "Delete." Click the back arrow at the top of the window to return to the "My Computer" folder, go to "Documents and Settings," the "All Users" folder, the "Application Data" folder and the "AGI" folder and delete any folder in the "AGI" folder with "Kiwee" in the title. Close the "My Computer" window.
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Get into the registry of your computer by going to the "Start" menu and typing "regedit" into the search box in the menu on Windows Vista and 7 systems, or by going to "Start," clicking "Run" and typing "regedit" into the "Run window." Press "Enter" once you enter "regedit" on either system to bring up the Registry Editor.
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Click the following folders in order in the left pane of the Registry Editor: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE," "Software," "Microsoft," "Windows, "CurrentVersion" and "Program Files." Delete any files in the "Program Files" folder that has "Kiwee" in the title by right-clicking each entry and choosing "Delete" from the context menu.
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Click the "CommonAppdata" entry that appears under the "CurrentVersion" folder in the left pane of the Registry Editor window. Delete all files with "Kiwee Toolbar2" in the title.
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Go to the "Common Programs" folder in the left pane of the Registry Editor window. Again, delete all files labeled "Kiwee Toolbar2." Then, click the "Local Appdata" folder and delete the "Kiwee Toolbar2" entries.
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Click the "Run" folder that appears in the "CurrentVersion" folder in the left pane of the registry and delete the "Kiweehook" file. Once that files is deleted, click the "Installer" folder in the left pane of the Registry Editor, the "UserData" folder, the folder labeled "s-1-5-18," the "Products" folder and the folder with the long code that begins "3f9655."
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Restart your computer. Since all of the files that the Kiwee toolbar requires to run have been deleted from the computer and the registry, the Kiwee toolbar should not open.
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