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David Miller
April 19th 06, 05:44 AM
I am trying to install a new antivirus/firewall program. I uninstalled all
of the elements of my old virus/fw program. When my new program stated that
it would not install until the old one was removed, I discovered there is
still .50KB of the old program left, somehow. I proceed with uninstalling
and it goes through the process... and then remains there even after
restarting the computer.
Please help me, anyone...
Thanks.
~David
rajkohli
April 19th 06, 06:00 AM
Try uninstalling your anti-virus software in Safe Mode. See if this help and
let us know.
"David Miller" wrote:
> I am trying to install a new antivirus/firewall program. I uninstalled all
> of the elements of my old virus/fw program. When my new program stated that
> it would not install until the old one was removed, I discovered there is
> still .50KB of the old program left, somehow. I proceed with uninstalling
> and it goes through the process... and then remains there even after
> restarting the computer.
> Please help me, anyone...
>
> Thanks.
> ~David
Rock
April 19th 06, 07:17 AM
David Miller wrote:
> I am trying to install a new antivirus/firewall program. I uninstalled all
> of the elements of my old virus/fw program. When my new program stated that
> it would not install until the old one was removed, I discovered there is
> still .50KB of the old program left, somehow. I proceed with uninstalling
> and it goes through the process... and then remains there even after
> restarting the computer.
> Please help me, anyone...
>
> Thanks.
> ~David
It might help if you posted the name of the old and new programs, or is
that a secret?
--
Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers
April 19th 06, 11:50 AM
Hi David,
If the old one is a Symantec/Norton program, then go to their support site,
search for and download one of the many installation cleanup utilities for
their software. Run it to remove any remnants of the installation, as there
is generally much left behind - too much for the average or even the expert
user to find and manually remove.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"David Miller" > wrote in message
...
>I am trying to install a new antivirus/firewall program. I uninstalled all
> of the elements of my old virus/fw program. When my new program stated
> that
> it would not install until the old one was removed, I discovered there is
> still .50KB of the old program left, somehow. I proceed with uninstalling
> and it goes through the process... and then remains there even after
> restarting the computer.
> Please help me, anyone...
>
> Thanks.
> ~David
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