Re: Broken Norton 2006 uninstall - what to do ?


"Al Dykes" <adykes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <crlJg.6930$q63.576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pete <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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It came wth the computer being used in this operation. It was
pre-installed and the 90 day trial ran out so rather than pay Nortomn
some bucks I decided to replace it with AVG. (We are a non-profit and
I believe we are within the TOS).

For posterity, and anyone that finds this with Google, I've fixed the
problem, here's how;

Norton (or XP) wouldn't let me do ControlPanel/uninstall in safe mode
and Norton wouldn't uninstall with the default user account even
though XP said it had "adminstrator" privilages.

I booted in safe mode. Made a new administrator account
then did a normal boot into the new account.

That one was able to cleanly uninstall Norton.

Done.


I'm not sure about NAV 2006 but previous versions had a removal program
that you could DL from Symantec's web site. It may be RNAV2006.EXE.

It will remove "most" of what's left over that the uninstall program
missed.

Chas.


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