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"Free" Rigistry Cleaner any good?
"Psale" wrote in
: Hi Val, I too wish to uninstall Norton System Works 2005 because it appears to be such a resource hog and there is virtually no support. Might you have any tips for a complete and safe removal of NSW2005 from a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC? - See if this helps: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...20050331081620 39?Open&src=&docid=2004071910434606&nsf=tsgeninfo. nsf&view=docid&dtype= &prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=&seg= Or here's the TinyURL version: http://tinyurl.com/7wdk9 |
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"Free" Rigistry Cleaner any good?
This is not an unusual request.Symantec has the bad habit of placing files
everywhere on the hard drives. First run the add/remove module to get the removal going. After that go to the directory where norton has resided and manually delete the remaining files and the directory. Then run a manual search on all drives if you have more than one to find any remnants of symantec or norton files and delete them. Then run a registry cleaner to locate any remaining norton/symantec keys and delete them. I suggest you defrag the drive where norton/symantec sat to definitely get rid of them. Also check for a module called "live update" and "Live registration" and delete them either using the add/remove module or do it manually. A big job but worth it to clean out the garbage. I must admit the I still have Partition Magic and WinFax Pro on my machine so I had to be very careful when deleting NSW from my machine. Go slow and perhaps backup before you begin. Good luck. Regards, "Psale" wrote in message ... Hi Val, I too wish to uninstall Norton System Works 2005 because it appears to be such a resource hog and there is virtually no support. Might you have any tips for a complete and safe removal of NSW2005 from a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC? - Peter Sale "VManes" wrote: Yes, the Norton/Symantec prodcuts are a pale imitation of what they once were ( I loved Norton Untilites 4.5 - that was Golden!) Recently, I undertook the task of removing all Symantec products from our two main PCs - mainly because the antispam product was just dogging down the system, not just while working email. Man, what a performance boost! |
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"Free" Rigistry Cleaner any good?
Bullwinkle Moose wrote:
This is not an unusual request.Symantec has the bad habit of placing files everywhere on the hard drives. First run the add/remove module to get the removal going. After that go to the directory where norton has resided and manually delete the remaining files and the directory. Then run a manual search on all drives if you have more than one to find any remnants of symantec or norton files and delete them. Then run a registry cleaner to locate any remaining norton/symantec keys and delete them. I suggest you defrag the drive where norton/symantec sat to definitely get rid of them. Also check for a module called "live update" and "Live registration" and delete them either using the add/remove module or do it manually. A big job but worth it to clean out the garbage. I must admit the I still have Partition Magic and WinFax Pro on my machine so I had to be very careful when deleting NSW from my machine. Go slow and perhaps backup before you begin. Good luck. Regards, "Psale" wrote in message ... Hi Val, I too wish to uninstall Norton System Works 2005 because it appears to be such a resource hog and there is virtually no support. Might you have any tips for a complete and safe removal of NSW2005 from a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC? - Peter Sale "VManes" wrote: Yes, the Norton/Symantec prodcuts are a pale imitation of what they once were ( I loved Norton Untilites 4.5 - that was Golden!) Recently, I undertook the task of removing all Symantec products from our two main PCs - mainly because the antispam product was just dogging down the system, not just while working email. Man, what a performance boost! The ONLY thing I found to effectively remove Norton stuff was a full re-install. For some reason months after removing NAVS an occasional message appertaining to NAVS would appear or a an empty folder was discovered. I don't know if I did the right thing (the restore was probably required for other reasons) but it did seem to reduce a bit of the NAVS peskiness IMO |
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"Free" Rigistry Cleaner any good?
Hi Psale - See here for complete removal instructions:
http://basconotw.mvps.org/SymRem.htm -- Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP My Blog, Defending Your Machine, he http://DefendingYourMachine.blogspot.com/ "Psale" wrote in message Hi Val, I too wish to uninstall Norton System Works 2005 because it appears to be such a resource hog and there is virtually no support. Might you have any tips for a complete and safe removal of NSW2005 from a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC? - Peter Sale "VManes" wrote: Yes, the Norton/Symantec prodcuts are a pale imitation of what they once were ( I loved Norton Untilites 4.5 - that was Golden!) Recently, I undertook the task of removing all Symantec products from our two main PCs - mainly because the antispam product was just dogging down the system, not just while working email. Man, what a performance boost! |
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