Re: re-install norton?

From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 10/19/04


Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:22:31 -0400

Thanks, Alphonse......of course, in prodding Symantec to get
rid of the LU1848 error, which they gave me pages of stuff
to read and follow, they never mentioned that utility......
                Bill L.

Alphonse wrote:
> You might have done that quite a while back, because they have a little
> utility called RemoveNAV which does a good job at cleaning what the
> uninstaller leaves behind. The latest is for 2003 but works just fine in
> 2004. As for LU, if you happen to uninstall it, best is to uninstall the AV
> and then it gets reinstalled when you reinstall NAV.
>
> In messing around with the registry, doing three searches, LiveUpdate,
> Norton, & Symantec, and deleting every key that contains either of these
> three values causes no harm. Of course this would be done after the
> uninstall, but as I said before, the utility takes care of it all.
>
> To Shauna, if you disabled the antivirus, then it should be a matter of
> re-enabling it again. However, if you do not have the icon by the clock you
> might want to find the folder where it was installed and try running the
> program. Sorry but I forgot what exactly is the file name that launches NAV,
> but you can rather easily guess by the icon next to the file name.
>
> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:uJEDh9WtEHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
>>For what it's worth, Shauna, just pray that you don't
>>have to uninstall and reinstall Norton software. Their
>>instructions for doing so involve links to a dozen of
>>their URLs, and each link requires typing out and then
>>each has several more URLs. And it involves digging into
>>the Registry to find their stuff and delete it.
>>
>>I've been living with a "Live Update" error message
>>every time it updates, because I won't risk doing
>>what they told me. Did you notice that you never see
>>Symantec people offering to solve problems here?
>>
>>Rotsa Ruck.
>>
>>Bill Lurie
>>
>>shauna wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Rick; Before I installed xp i went into norton and "un-enabled" the
>>>features. Appreciate your respones.
>>>
>>>thanks.
>>>sa
>>>
>>>"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Shauna,
>>>>
>>>>How did you initially disable it?
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Best of Luck,
>>>>
>>>>Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>>>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>>>Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>>>>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>>>Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>>>
>>>>"Shauna" <Shauna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:85CC3913-7553-45AF-9B77-D4DCABE6C6E4@microsoft.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>hi. i'm new to this. i just installed xp over my 98 following
>>>>>instructions i
>>>>>found on these pages which told me to disable my norton 2004. i'm
>>>>>wondering
>>>>>now do i have to reinstall this or can i restore it from somewhere on my
>>>>>computer and if so where? sorry if this seems like an elementary
>>>>>question.
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>shauna
>>>>
>
>

-- 
                    William B. Lurie


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