DELETING REGISTRY ENTRIES

[Guest its_my_dime]

I am trying to delete some left over SYMANTEC entries from my registry using

REGEDIT. I get an "error while deleting key" message, even in SAFE MODE.

The programs themselves are gone.

 

How do I get rid of these entries? I believe they are slowing up the boot

process.

 

Thank you.

[Guest its_my_dime]

Re: DELETING REGISTRY ENTRIES

 

 

 

Sorry, found it!

 

Had to do with "permission" to delete the entry. Right click and check the

box. Leave it to SYMANTEC to make things difficult!

 

 

 

"its_my_dime" <its_my_dime@yahoo.com.spam(hold the .spam)> wrote in message

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>I am trying to delete some left over SYMANTEC entries from my registry

>using REGEDIT. I get an "error while deleting key" message, even in SAFE

>MODE. The programs themselves are gone.

>

> How do I get rid of these entries? I believe they are slowing up the boot

> process.

>

> Thank you.

>

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: DELETING REGISTRY ENTRIES

 

The date and time was 7/1/2008 7:36 AM, and on a whim, its_my_dime

pounded out on the keyboard:

> I am trying to delete some left over SYMANTEC entries from my registry using

> REGEDIT. I get an "error while deleting key" message, even in SAFE MODE.

> The programs themselves are gone.

>

> How do I get rid of these entries? I believe they are slowing up the boot

> process.

>

> Thank you.

>

>

 

Go to the Symantec site. I believe there are some utility programs

there for cleaning out the old entries. Search for the program you had

installed. You could take ownership of the entries but I don't

recommend that.

 

It is unlikely they are slowing your system down enough for you to

notice, so after you run the utility, you should be fine.

 

--

Terry R.

 

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[Guest Brian Cryer]

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"its_my_dime" <its_my_dime@yahoo.com.spam(hold the .spam)> wrote in message

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>I am trying to delete some left over SYMANTEC entries from my registry

>using REGEDIT. I get an "error while deleting key" message, even in SAFE

>MODE. The programs themselves are gone.

>

> How do I get rid of these entries? I believe they are slowing up the boot

> process.

 

I know you've solved the prolblem, but a few observations:

 

1. Registry entries by themselves will make zero difference to boot time.

 

2. To remove obsolete items from the registry I would use ccleaner

(http://www.ccleaner.com/, freeware).

--

Brian Cryer

http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian

[Guest John John (MVP)]

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Actually that is a security measure that would be expected from any

decent AV/Security application, if the security software can simply be

disabled by malware then it isn't too well designed!

 

John

 

its_my_dime wrote:

> Sorry, found it!

>

> Had to do with "permission" to delete the entry. Right click and check the

> box. Leave it to SYMANTEC to make things difficult!

>

>

>

> "its_my_dime" <its_my_dime@yahoo.com.spam(hold the .spam)> wrote in message

> news:ewEBqf42IHA.2104@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>

>>I am trying to delete some left over SYMANTEC entries from my registry

>>using REGEDIT. I get an "error while deleting key" message, even in SAFE

>>MODE. The programs themselves are gone.

>>

>>How do I get rid of these entries? I believe they are slowing up the boot

>>process.

>>

>>Thank you.

>>

>

>

>

[Guest its_my_dime]

Re: DELETING REGISTRY ENTRIES

 

 

REPLYING TO EVERYBODY.

 

Thanks for your comments.

 

Very good point on locking the registry entries to prevent malware from

deleting them. I hadn't considered that.

 

Norton Removal Tool did not remove theses entries; I tried it several times.

The problem may, in part, have been missing UNINSTALL information.

 

CC Clean (a good program) didn't remove them either. It did clean up stuff

after the entries were removed by hand.

 

I took out NAV 2008 because of slow boot problems. My thought was that some

of these remaining registry entries were trying to find already removed

programs.

 

Again, thanks.

 

 

 

 

"Brian Cryer" <not.here@localhost> wrote in message

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> "its_my_dime" <its_my_dime@yahoo.com.spam(hold the .spam)> wrote in

> message news:ewEBqf42IHA.2104@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>I am trying to delete some left over SYMANTEC entries from my registry

>>using REGEDIT. I get an "error while deleting key" message, even in SAFE

>>MODE. The programs themselves are gone.

>>

>> How do I get rid of these entries? I believe they are slowing up the

>> boot process.

>

> I know you've solved the prolblem, but a few observations:

>

> 1. Registry entries by themselves will make zero difference to boot time.

>

> 2. To remove obsolete items from the registry I would use ccleaner

> (http://www.ccleaner.com/, freeware).

> --

> Brian Cryer

> http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian

>

>

[Guest Gary Brandenburg]

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If you want to be sure to get all the entries,try Regseeker:

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

 

It's a handy little program that allows you to do a search for items,by entering

"Norton" & "Symantec". It will create a backup, before the removal, & will find many

other entries that are leftover , even after using the Norton Removal Tool.

 

While I don't endorse "registry cleaners" one bit, this program is a useful tool for

removing *specific* entries that remain from *specific* uninstalls.

 

~Gary

 

 

 

"its_my_dime" <its_my_dime@yahoo.com.spam(hold the .spam)> wrote in message

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>

>

> Sorry, found it!

>

> Had to do with "permission" to delete the entry. Right click and check the box.

> Leave it to SYMANTEC to make things difficult!

>

>

>

> "its_my_dime" <its_my_dime@yahoo.com.spam(hold the .spam)> wrote in message

> news:ewEBqf42IHA.2104@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>I am trying to delete some left over SYMANTEC entries from my registry using

>>REGEDIT. I get an "error while deleting key" message, even in SAFE MODE. The

>>programs themselves are gone.

>>

>> How do I get rid of these entries? I believe they are slowing up the boot

>> process.

>>

>> Thank you.

>>

>

>

[Guest Onsokumaru]

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"its_my_dime" <its_my_dime@yahoo.com.spam(hold the .spam)> wrote in message

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> I took out NAV 2008 because of slow boot problems. My thought was that

> some of these remaining registry entries were trying to find already

> removed programs.

>

 

If the program isn't there windows will just pass over it, it will slow your

PC down for as long as it takes windows to determine the program isn't

there.

 

If these registry keys didn't have a path in them, then I expect it would

have no effect at all. Often entries are just there to keep settings for the

program, and only come into play once the program is running.