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Ok i have been a little dumb here. I installed vista ultimate without reading
the fine print and not i´m in a fix. I had Norton anti-viris installed on my
pc when i updated from XP Pro and of corse it dosn´t work but that aint the
prob. How do i uninstall norton coz when i try through control manager it
says only works with xp, blah blah blah. So do i roll back to Xp uninstall or
is there another way
Thanks if you can help
 
Ok i have been a little dumb here. I installed vista ultimate without
reading
the fine print and not i´m in a fix. I had Norton anti-viris installed
on my
pc when i updated from XP Pro and of corse it dosn´t work but that
aint the
prob. How do i uninstall norton coz when i try through control manager
it
says only works with xp, blah blah blah. So do i roll back to Xp
uninstall or
is there another way
Thanks if you can help
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On the website from Symantec you can search for a uninstall tool colled RNAV.EXE
that should do the uninstall.

I cannot gauranty it works under Vista.

ko van Zeeland
 
Ok i have been a little dumb here. I installed vista ultimate without
On the website from Symantec you can search for a uninstall tool
colled RNAV.EXE that should do the uninstall.

I cannot gauranty it works under Vista.

ko van Zeeland
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PS: forgot to mention it's version dependend!

ko van Zeeland
 
The only known way to remove it is to reformat and reinstall Vista. It
looks like you used the upgrade XP option when you installed Vista. This
has often been problematical. Your best option is to either use a
separate disk for Vista or at least a separate partition. In the last
few days there have been several posts here on how to install Vista in
an optimal way.
 
If that fails, you can also search for the manual uninstall. That often is
the only way to get rid of it.
 
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Bernie said:
The only known way to remove it is to reformat and reinstall Vista. It
looks like you used the upgrade XP option when you installed Vista. This
has often been problematical. Your best option is to either use a separate
disk for Vista or at least a separate partition. In the last few days
there have been several posts here on how to install Vista in an optimal
way.
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There is no "rollback" to XP from Vista. You did not install a new
screen-saver. You over-wrote your operating system. The only way back to
XP is to reformat the partition and reinstall, naturally taking all of your
documents out as well. Try to use Kol's idea for uninstalling Norton.
 
Sorry: Try "Ko's" idea for uninstalling Norton.

Mark D. VandenBeg said:
There is no "rollback" to XP from Vista. You did not install a new
screen-saver. You over-wrote your operating system. The only way back to
XP is to reformat the partition and reinstall, naturally taking all of
your documents out as well. Try to use Kol's idea for uninstalling
Norton.

"read the fine print" <read the fine (e-mail address removed)>
wrote in message
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read the fine print said:
Ok i have been a little dumb here. I installed vista ultimate without
reading
the fine print and not i´m in a fix. I had Norton anti-viris installed on
my
pc when i updated from XP Pro and of corse it dosn´t work but that aint
the
prob. How do i uninstall norton coz when i try through control manager it
says only works with xp, blah blah blah. So do i roll back to Xp uninstall
or
is there another way
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As others have pointed out its a format jobby.

Then take my advice and don't use any Symantec/Norton software again, it
just gets worse and worse with every release. Avast anti-virus seems
popular with other MVPs these days and far less troublesome. For a firewall
the XP SP2 is fine for every day use.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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