The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    removing norton's liveupdate

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by catherine, May 22, 2006.

  1. catherine

    catherine Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    24
    Messages:
    200
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    hey guys, i've uninstalled the main norton AV software, but whenever i try to remove the liveupdate, it says that my notebook still has some symantec applications. now i have no idea what they are, how can i remove them? should i? it won't disable anything else would it?
     
    catherine, May 22, 2006
    #1
  2. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

    Reputations:
    436
    Messages:
    3,651
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    try reinstalling norton and then uninstall the liveupdate first
     
    drumfu, May 22, 2006
    #2
  3. Elderlycrawfish

    Elderlycrawfish Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    17
    Messages:
    161
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Alternatively, there is a couple of uninstall tools on the symantec website, one for the earlier versions of Norton, and one for the more recent ones.

    Unfortunately, I don't recall the exact link at the moment, but a bit of digging around should find it.
     
    Elderlycrawfish, May 22, 2006
    #3
  4. qwester

    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    366
    Messages:
    2,755
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Also you might try uninstalling in safe mode. I am not sure it will work but could be worth a shot if you cannot locate those clean up/uninstall utilities
     
    qwester, May 23, 2006
    #4
  5. catherine

    catherine Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    24
    Messages:
    200
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    uninstalling in safe mode and uninstalling live update first didn't work.

    it takes quite a bit of space so i would really want to remove it.
     
    catherine, May 27, 2006
    #5
  6. Chutsman

    Chutsman Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    609
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Go into the Control Panel and uninstall all the Norton Programs that are listed, leaving Live Update for last.

    If you're already done that check in Start/Run type in msconfig and under the StartUp tab uncheck any items to do with Symantec or Norton.
     
    Chutsman, May 27, 2006
    #6
  7. camsimple

    camsimple Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    22
    Messages:
    595
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    camsimple, May 27, 2006
    #7