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Original Message

Name: Miller88
Date: December 11, 2006 at 16:48:30 Pacific
Subject: Getting Rid of Symantec
OS: XP Pro SP2
CPU/Ram: --
Model/Manufacturer: --

Comment:

I used the manual uninstall method from symantec's website and now every time I right click on a folder, symantec installer pops up.
How do I stop it from doing this?

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Response Number 1

Name: DanJ
Date: December 11, 2006 at 17:55:37 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Norton makes a removal tool to help clean up any traces of the program which the uninstall utility leaves.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...
It will uninstall ALL Norton products you have.

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Response Number 2

Name: Bill McMinn
Date: December 11, 2006 at 17:56:45 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Get a registry cleaner program like tune up utilities and/or toniarts easycleaner to clean up the registry entries left over by symantec's uninstaller. Then clean up any temp files left over with ccleaner.

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Response Number 3

Name: Sabertooth
Date: December 11, 2006 at 20:43:19 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

CrapCleaner should resolve that.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

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Response Number 4

Name: Miller88
Date: December 12, 2006 at 13:54:01 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Thanks! It's all gone.

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