Has anyone tried to get rid of norton AV? What a pain in the arse. Had to manually delete the av files cause they decided they were not leaving. Got 1 left & it's a dll. It won't be removed, I was going to go in deep & kill the b@$t@d, but thought I check & see if I'm gonna put the screws to myself. The file name is NAVSHExt.dll. Can it go away?

Hello Enigma: Peter Norton is a very bright man but sold his name. Since then it's been a downward path. On a daily basis I se problems caused by Norton Products--and very often created as well. My recommendation would be to back up data files and then do a full format and reinstall as it will save time. While I am well familiar with the registry in W2K and am still learning ther differences in XP--it pretty much the same decision: do I spend hours or just back up and reinstall. Time is money, so I usually back up and do the reinstall but it does piss me off. I have a quad processor SUN box at home. One went south last week and I could replace it without shutting down. Forget about rebooting. Not necessary. I have 1,165 days of uptime on this box. Try that with any Win OS. Should say that while I am a UNIX guy I am not beating up on Win users. I am running XP on two boxes at home as I must support 1,200 user, of which 20% are now running XP. And, I will learn from all the more experience users here. Guess that's what a community like this is all about. Hmm. I am very busy but would like to know how to disable all the cartoonish balloons in XP. Hope someone can help. TIA

to clean up .dll's try using regcleaner from: http://www.jv16.org/ to remove balloons, "run" gpedit.msc go to user configuration/administrative templates/start menu and taskbar/ and enable "remove balloon tips on start menu items"

search for nswclean.exe on symantecs site run it for the version you're trying to get rid of, it'll remove it. they changed it to symclean.zip click homepage link for info/download site

i don't know what you guys are talking about i am running win xp and norton and it works fine make sure you install in correctly and do not delete the dll files if you use system mechanic.