What is Solo Bar?

Solo Bar is an extension for the browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer), that comes bundled with free software without user consent. Solo Bar is a potentially unwanted program and can cause irreparable damage to your PC. After penetrating the computer, Solo Bar begins to display advertisements, banners and other promotional products. This ad may pop up at any time during your browsing. Thus, Solo Bar promotes products of its partners, online stores and other. It changes your browser’s homepage and search engine, and can also redirect the user to other sites and replace the search results. Among other things, Solo Bar collects your personal information, browsing history, and so on. It is done in order to pick up the goods and services which will interest you most. Solo Bar also increases the amount of traffic and significantly reduces the performance of your PC. If you find Solo Baron your computer, remove it immediately!

How Solo Bar gets on your PC?

Solo Bar comes on the computer without the user’s knowledge. It can get on your PC insensibly in the form of additional content or come bundled with free software. Also, this program can be installed from its website or partner sites. Often users download freeware via Installation Manager, which hides within itself potentially unwanted programs (download.com, ebay.com etc.). Installation of programs, in these cases, happens quickly and installation progress is not displayed. Thus, the user does not expect that computer is at risk. The user should read attentively the user agreement and not hurry to press “Next” button. Try to choose the “Advanced” type of installation. If Solo Bar is already infiltrated on your PC, then you need to get rid of it now!

How to remove Solo Bar from your computer?

To uninstall Solo Bar remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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You can try both of these products to remove Solo Bar

Or uninstall Solo Bar manually.

Step 1: Remove Solo Bar from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Solo Bar.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Solo Bar and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Solo Bar, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Solo Bar and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Solo Bar from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Solo Bar from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Solo Bar.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Solo Bar.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Solo Bar.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Solo Bar:

Remove following registry entries:

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Written by Rami Douafi