This is prob an oldie you get sick of answering, but I've tried to use my windows xp discs to reformat my sony laptop to get rid of everything. The problem is things like Norton antivirus and other programs stay on there. How can I get rid of everythingand start from scratch?
View 11 RepliesIt's an IBM R51 with XP Pro.I've been using Zone Alarm on my desktop with Windows 98, would like to keep it but as I'm new to XP I'm needing some tips on what to remove or replace.After years of 98, XP is a total Nightmare to me, I read somewhere here that XP has it's own firewall and it should be removed before installing ZA How do I do that Can't find a thing.
View 8 Replies View RelatedOkay, I did a search but there are just too many results to sort through. I need some help reformatting my computer. I want to start fresh with everything except for some school work, which I can save on floppys.So I just want to know, what is everything I need to reformat a Dell computer running XP Home edition? I know I need the system disc and thats about it. What do I do with it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedCan anyone tell me what to get rid of, if anything. My pc is running extremely slow.
I have several unwanted items in my favourites list, both URLs and folders with URLs in them. I cannot right click on them (to delete) and they do not appear in the 'organize favourites' box. Just the favourites that I have added are there.
View 14 Replies View RelatedJust installed RegistryBooster and scanned OK. When computer restarted a RegistryBooster dialogue box appears offering to scan and I want to get rid of it, but can't as there is no apparent way to do so. So can anyone please tell me how to remove it?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have a number of hidden files which I have forwarded to MY Documents and my Pictures.I want to delete my hidden files but keep the ones I forwarded.What worries me is if i delete hidden ones will the others also be deleted.I was wondering if i changed the names of the ones i want to keep or will they be safe anyway
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running win xp pro sp2 and have just installed norton antivirus 2005. NAV recommends i use it instead of windows for my default firewall protection. should i turn off the windows firewall and rely just on the norton antivirus, which checks for worms, trojan horeses, etc by default or run both
View 11 Replies View RelatedI bought a new laptop a week ago and it came with Windows XP Home Edition. It also came with Norton AntiVirus already installed on it. I dislike Norton AntiVirus and decided to manually uninstall it. I went into regedit and deleted all Symantec and Norton files. Except for one file it wouldn't let me delete.A few days later (after I had no trouble installing such games as Starcraft, Blockland and Endless-Online) I tried to install The Sims, Lego Creator and some older games onto my computer from CD's. I got this message when attempting to install them
View 14 Replies View RelatedI keep getting message to update virus definition yet each week I run a complete live Norton Virus Update. Try to manually update virus's but it does not work.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy PC is shutting down very frequently with a dialog box giving a message some thing like this:he action is initiated by NT AUHORITYSYSTEM
C:Windowssystem32lsass.exe interrupted unexpectedly With code -1073741819I am using OS Windows XP Professional edition And Norton Antivirus with automatic update
In last half an hour it has popped up a message more than 20 times telling that it has found and deleted a virus from my system
with a problem after uninstalling norton antivirus 2006?I uninstalled the program though the add/remove function but everytime I open Word it opens an installation window of Norton 2006. You have to click it several times to close and it eventually does but it is very annoying.I tried deleting it through hijack this but I can't delete it...it keeps on coming back.
View 9 Replies View RelatedRecently my father-in-law installed a program on to my computer. It set up a desktop icon, that did not get removed when it was uninstalled. I can't even right click on it and hit delete because it's not there, nor can I just hit delete. How can it be removed manually. It is a "share-to-web upload folder" from a hp digital camera. I aslo don't have access to the cd to reinstall it and uninstall again. Also I can't get task manager to work, I hit Ctrl, Alt, Delete and nothing. I right click on the task bar and click on task manager and nothing. Iwas working a few days ago, don't know what happened, anyway to get it back? I already tried system restore but only goes back a few days.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy computer (H.P. Pavilion ze 4900 laptop) is running ver-r-r-ry slow.I have: Defragged, Cleaned up my cookies, Uninstalled unneeded programs, Restored the system to a date prior to the occurrence of the slow running speed,Restarted the computer.I have not: Done a disc clean-up (because I have been given conflicting counsel [re: the safety of doing a disc clean-up] by folks who know more about computers than I do.)
Shut down programs running in the back ground(Although I have lots of programs running in the back ground,I have not shut any of those things down because 1)I dont know how to discriminate between what should and what should not be shut down and 2)I dont how to shut those programs down.)Done a virus sweep or a spy-ware sweep (because those operations take a long time even when the computer is running at normal speed
I have run norton antivirus. I have gone to msconfig and deslected all of the startup programs. I am using windows xp proffessional on one computer and xp home on another. What is slowing these computers down, and how do I fix them?
View 1 Replies View Relatedit isn't acting right, but I have been trying to install norton antivirus. She bought the package and has a 2 year subscription, and afterwards we ran live update. It then asks for an activation key, which we have from the email sent to her. When we click OK to tell it that we want to put it in, it does nothing. No matter how long you wait or how many times you click OK, the box just sits there. For this reason, we cant update her virus definitions or get norton to protect her computer. norton is not the only button that will not respond. Somehow the viewpoint toolbar was installed on her computer. When we try to uninstall the viewpoint toolbar or if I go to add/remove programs and try to uninstall it from there, it brings up a box that asks are you sure you want to uninstall viewpoint It does the same as the norton box; it will not respond, even if I click yes and wait
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Norton Antivirus 2005 to my computer but it will not go. All other cd's work except that one. I have Windows XP and I installed the Service Pack
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am running a Dell PIII 800 mhz, with 80 G hard drive and XP SP 2. I recently downloaded a program from Handango.com for my wife's PDA called "Body Pro Desktop 2005". Soon after installing this program, the following problems occurred:
1. Norton Antivirus 2006 crashed.
2. Body Pro would not run.
3. Cannot reinstall Norton Antivirus.
4. Cannot download updates for my Spybot S&D (bad checksum error).
Me and my friend were trying to set up our laptop so that it could play some mpeg file I made to memorialize someone. It had Windows Media Player, so all was fine, and there were some issues regarding settingit up to play in a digital projector. But every 20 seconds, an urgent reminder kept appearing about how I need to update my Norton Antivirus file. Every 20 seconds! Because of that, there was a chance that would appear every 20 seconds during the presentation, so uninstalled the Norton Antivirus software. After all, my friend did not purchase this or even download it for free- it came with the Compaq.
View 41 Replies View RelatedI'm going to try a system restore and I need to close all open programs. Does this mean I need to close Norton Antivirus, Spybot and Ad-Aware too? What about programs that run in the background that you don't see? I've never worried about this when installing software--just left them running--but I don't want to mess up with system restore. I have lots of disc space and plenty of memory, if this makes any difference.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am working on a friends laptop, a Dell Inspiron 9200 running Windows XP Pro with SP3. I have it working well now except the USB ports do not work.The laptop was in pretty bad shape when I started. I remove Norton Antivirus (subscription expired 3 years ago), removed a few trojans and viruses using Malwarebytes and Combofix, and installed AVG Free. I also cleaned up the temp files, compacted the registry using NTRegOpt, and defragmented the drive.I have tried uninstalling the USB controllers and let Windows reinstall them, verified working status in Device manager, and disabled USB device power management. I also plugged in a USB mouse and verified the ports are supplying power.
View 5 Replies View RelatedNorton AntiVirus 2007 security pop-up alerts every 5 seconds?
View 6 Replies View Relatedive tried getting rid of the Downloader.MisleadApp virus through Norton Antivirus and it wouldn't delete so i followed the directions it suggested by deleting it through safe mode but that also didn't work what else should i do?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've been having trouble with my computer freezing once it has been on for a while (>1hr 30 min), the mouse at first goes slow, then stops, and it also freezes sometimes whenever i put the capslock on (Weird, I know). I just reformatted my computer to solve the problem, installed Norton Anti-virus 2005, and defragmented it after all the windows update stuff was installed
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy Norton firewall is about to expire and I wanted to know if there was a more 'gamer' friendly firewall out there. Norton has caused me an endless stream of problems with my games since I got the damn thing and I would love to know if someone has better experience with a better firewall/antivirus.
View 9 Replies View RelatedNorton antivirus popped up and said i had trojan adclicker in jkklm.dll. It then stated that clean failed: Quarantine failed: access denied. i could not get rid of the pop-up notification it came up around 50 times.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi need help to open it and get rid of an unwanted program
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter installing Norton AntiVirus 2007 I received the following message when I opened the security center in the control panel; The Security Center is currently unavailable because the "Security Center" service has not started or was stopped. Please close this window, restart the computer (or start the "Security Center" service), and then open the Security Center again. I have naturally restarted the computer but that didn't fix the problem. I don't know that the problem is connected to the installation of Norton 2007, (upgraded from 2005), but the Security Center was available before the installation.
View 5 Replies View RelatedEverything that I open is coruptted ALMOST everything, some programs will install correctly, but after a short few hours some of them will not even open, like when say I click on Dvd Shrink it just does nothing.
Ive Reinstalled the programs plenty of times NOTHING.
Half Life 2Norton Antivirus 2005 in stalled from 2 different cd roms that have been cleaned numerous times will not install says corupted cab files or various other files corupted
I installed Window XP upgrade and didn't realize that it would disable my Norton antivirus 2004. After installation, Windows informed me that Norton would have to be reinstalled. I tried reinstalling it, but couldn't until the disabled one was uninstalled. When I tried to uninstall it, there were some files that the uninstall program couldn't find, so the uninstall failed. I need to know how I can get the disabled one off my system so that I can reinstall Norton again.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having a error message when I try to run my Live Update on Norton AntiVirus. The message is the following:"Your system is low on Virtual Memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process memory requests for some applications my be denied. For more infomation, see help." have seen the help dialoge; however, it isn't doing the trick. What does this whole virtual memory warning mean? Can I do something to prevent this low virtual memory problem?
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