Guest seaweed1317 Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Thanks to all who responded yesterday about Norton. I did a search this morning AFTER I un-installed & still had 13 folders. Hit delete & there is 4 that says I can't delete? I did go to add\remove & take everything Symantec\Norton out of there but now, do I really have to go to the registry. HORRORS!!!! Somebody posted this.............................................. Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for "Norton" and "Symantec?" .......................................................................................................................................................................... & I am just not sure what to do before I put on another, better program. Good lesson learned here from this "die-hard" Norton user. Never again !!!! Thanks ......seaweed
Guest Galen Somerville Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton "seaweed1317" <slynn@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:%23DgpOsc2HHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Thanks to all who responded yesterday about Norton. I did a search this > morning AFTER I un-installed & still had 13 folders. Hit delete & there is > 4 > that says I can't delete? I did go to add\remove & take everything > Symantec\Norton out of there but now, do I really have to go to the > registry. HORRORS!!!! > > Somebody posted this.............................................. > Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the > super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for "Norton" > and "Symantec?" > ......................................................................................................................................................................... > > & I am just not sure what to do before I put on another, better program. > Good lesson learned here from this "die-hard" Norton user. Never again > !!!! > > Thanks > .....seaweed > > Get the Symantec Norton removal tool. Try this link http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/sharedtech.nsf/docid/2006050909471013 Galen
Guest JS Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton Did you download and run the file named SymNRT.exe, this is the tool that will remove most of the registry entries and files on your hard disk. Unfortunately the more recent versions of this file do not remove all the registry entries like the earlier versions did so their will still be a few reg entries you most likely not be able to find and delete. As for any remaining directories and files you may be required to reboot before you can delete these. JS "seaweed1317" <slynn@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:%23DgpOsc2HHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Thanks to all who responded yesterday about Norton. I did a search this > morning AFTER I un-installed & still had 13 folders. Hit delete & there is > 4 > that says I can't delete? I did go to add\remove & take everything > Symantec\Norton out of there but now, do I really have to go to the > registry. HORRORS!!!! > > Somebody posted this.............................................. > Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the > super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for "Norton" > and "Symantec?" > ......................................................................................................................................................................... > > & I am just not sure what to do before I put on another, better program. > Good lesson learned here from this "die-hard" Norton user. Never again > !!!! > > Thanks > .....seaweed > >
Guest Alex Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton "seaweed1317" <slynn@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:#DgpOsc2HHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: > Thanks to all who responded yesterday about Norton. I did a search this > morning AFTER I un-installed & still had 13 folders. Hit delete & there > is 4 that says I can't delete? I did go to add\remove & take everything > Symantec\Norton out of there but now, do I really have to go to the > registry. HORRORS!!!! > > Somebody posted this.............................................. > Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the > super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for > "Norton" and "Symantec?" > ......................................................................... > ......................................................................... > ....................... > > & I am just not sure what to do before I put on another, better program. > Good lesson learned here from this "die-hard" Norton user. Never again > !!!! > > Thanks > .....seaweed Norton software pulled that crap on me. I keep a very old DOS utility program that I still use from time to time for such things. Botted into DOS only with a floppy, ran my good ol' popdos, deleted all the Norton files and folders I could find without a problem. Re-started back into windows, ran regedit and ruthlessly eradicated every instance of "Norton" and "Symantec" I could find from the registry. Drastic but Norton pissed me off. Got rid of most if it but it still left a little something of itself behind. It wasn't until I posted a question here that I was finally able to get rid of that last bit. Alex
Guest Juan I. Cahis Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton Dear friends: I did it, and in my case, SymNRT gave me a message telling that "This version has expired, please download the newest one" (or similar), and refused to work. And it was just downloaded from their site!!!!!!! "JS" <@> wrote: >Did you download and run the file named SymNRT.exe, this is the tool that >will remove most of the registry entries and files on your hard disk. >Unfortunately the more recent versions of this file do not remove all the >registry entries like the earlier versions did so their will still be a few >reg entries you most likely not be able to find and delete. > >As for any remaining directories and files you may be required to reboot >before you can delete these. > >JS > >"seaweed1317" <slynn@sympatico.ca> wrote in message >news:%23DgpOsc2HHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Thanks to all who responded yesterday about Norton. I did a search this >> morning AFTER I un-installed & still had 13 folders. Hit delete & there is >> 4 >> that says I can't delete? I did go to add\remove & take everything >> Symantec\Norton out of there but now, do I really have to go to the >> registry. HORRORS!!!! >> >> Somebody posted this.............................................. >> Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the >> super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for "Norton" >> and "Symantec?" >> ............................................................................................................................................................................ >> >> & I am just not sure what to do before I put on another, better program. >> Good lesson learned here from this "die-hard" Norton user. Never again >> !!!! >> >> Thanks >> .....seaweed >> >> > Thanks Juan I. Cahis Santiago de Chile (South America) Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
Guest JS Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton Typical of Symantec, most likely the reason is that each version has some flaws, for instance their earlier version did in fact remove every last shred of the product, consequently you could re-install and get another 360 days worth of updates even if you had already used the product for 9 months, this oversight has since been fixed and the associated registry keys are no longer removed. JS "Juan I. Cahis" <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:fdsjb39l9pf6p81kqahpq56bjug0917qbl@4ax.com... Dear friends: I did it, and in my case, SymNRT gave me a message telling that "This version has expired, please download the newest one" (or similar), and refused to work. And it was just downloaded from their site!!!!!!! "JS" <@> wrote: >Did you download and run the file named SymNRT.exe, this is the tool that >will remove most of the registry entries and files on your hard disk. >Unfortunately the more recent versions of this file do not remove all the >registry entries like the earlier versions did so their will still be a few >reg entries you most likely not be able to find and delete. > >As for any remaining directories and files you may be required to reboot >before you can delete these. > >JS > >"seaweed1317" <slynn@sympatico.ca> wrote in message >news:%23DgpOsc2HHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Thanks to all who responded yesterday about Norton. I did a search this >> morning AFTER I un-installed & still had 13 folders. Hit delete & there >> is >> 4 >> that says I can't delete? I did go to add\remove & take everything >> Symantec\Norton out of there but now, do I really have to go to the >> registry. HORRORS!!!! >> >> Somebody posted this.............................................. >> Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the >> super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for "Norton" >> and "Symantec?" >> ......................................................................................................................................................................... >> >> & I am just not sure what to do before I put on another, better program. >> Good lesson learned here from this "die-hard" Norton user. Never again >> !!!! >> >> Thanks >> .....seaweed >> >> > Thanks Juan I. Cahis Santiago de Chile (South America) Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
Guest HeyBub Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton seaweed1317 wrote: > Somebody posted this.............................................. > Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the > super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for > "Norton" and "Symantec?" > ......................................................................................................................................................................... > That was me. Removing Norton is like removing a tattoo: It's hard to get it all and it hurts like hell. For a long time.
Guest just plain rob Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:20:55 -0500, HeyBub brought this comment to my attention: > seaweed1317 wrote: > >> Somebody posted this.............................................. Are >> you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the >> super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for >> "Norton" and "Symantec?" >> ......................................................................................................................................................................... >> >> > That was me. Removing Norton is like removing a tattoo: It's hard to get > it all and it hurts like hell. For a long time. Get a good, SAFE registry cleaner and it should remove the orphaned registry links. Some reg cleaners will over-clean and remove too many important empty registry entries. I've used quite a few and stick to Registry First Aid as it rates the potential troubled entries on a green/amber/red safe-to-remove scale. YMMV.
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:03:11 GMT, just plain rob <pinballz_@_verizon.net> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:20:55 -0500, HeyBub brought this comment to my > attention: > > > seaweed1317 wrote: > > > >> Somebody posted this.............................................. Are > >> you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the > >> super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for > >> "Norton" and "Symantec?" > >> ......................................................................................................................................................................... > >> > >> > > That was me. Removing Norton is like removing a tattoo: It's hard to get > > it all and it hurts like hell. For a long time. > > > Get a good, SAFE registry cleaner and it should remove the orphaned registry links. > Some reg cleaners will over-clean and remove too many important empty registry entries. > I've used quite a few and stick to Registry First Aid as it rates the potential troubled entries on a green/amber/red > safe-to-remove scale. YMMV. The way to get rid of Norton is to use the removal tool referenced above, not to use a registry cleaner. *All* registry cleaners are potentially dangerous. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Plato Posted August 9, 2007 Posted August 9, 2007 Re: How to rid me of Norton seaweed1317 wrote: > > Thanks to all who responded yesterday about Norton. I did a search this > morning AFTER I un-installed & still had 13 folders. Hit delete & there is 4 > that says I can't delete? I did go to add\remove & take everything > Symantec\Norton out of there but now, do I really have to go to the > registry. HORRORS!!!! Norton removal tools: http://www.bootdisk.com/helpdesk.htm MORE UTILITIES -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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