How to Remove Norton AntiVirus from Your Computer

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One reason you may want to remove Norton AntiVirus is IBM ThinkPad T43 Battery because the program may have come preinstalled in your computer. It usually comes in the form of a trial version that encourages you to sign up for the full-featured version. If you’re not really impressed with what Norton has to offer, you may want to uninstall it. Also, you may want to install a `better’ anti-virus program. The new program may require you to uninstall Norton AntiVirus first before you could proceed with its installation. Another aspect you would want to consider is there are some viruses created to attack Norton and disable it, so that these viruses can freely attack your system and wreak havoc on it.

If you’ve been using Norton AntiVirus for quite a while and regularly updating it, you would have noticed that it has the tendency to slow down your system. It could also be that Norton wrongly cuts off Internet access to protect your system.

In such cases uninstalling Norton AntiVirus and replacing it with a freeware antivirus program like AVG is a wise option. Let’s look at how we can go about uninstalling Norton AntiVirus.

Using Add/Remove Program Feature

By clicking on Start – Control Panel – Add/RemoveIBM ThinkPad R50 Battery Program, you can remove Norton AntiVirus. Select the Norton program and click on Remove. A Norton setup window will appear and you’ll have to click on Remove All to start the uninstallation. This doesn’t remove Norton from your system yet. You would have to restart your computer for that to happen.

Automatic Norton Removal Tool

If for some reason you can’t remove Norton using Windows Add/Remove Program, you should try using the freeware Norton Removal Tool, the latest version of which could be downloaded from trusted download sites like softpedia.com or download.cnet.com. Although the tool promises convenience, it has a major drawback. Apart from removing Norton AntiVirus, it would also remove other Norton programs like:

Norton Password Manager

Norton Personal Firewall

Norton Internet Security

You should check with the Removal Tool which versions of the above programs it will remove. Also ensure you have backup copies of the above programs before putting the Norton Removal Tool to work.

After Norton Removal Tool finishes its task, you should restart your computer to have Norton AntiVirus completely removed.

Manual Deletion

To make sure Norton AntiVirus has been completely removed from your computer, you would want to take an extra step in the form of manual IBM ThinkPad R51 Battery deletion.

Double click on My Computer on your desktop screen.

Chose Drive C.

Search for the Program Files folder.

Within the folder, look for the Norton folder.

Since you want Norton AntiVirus to be permanently removed, right click on it and choose Delete. This will clean your system of Norton AntiVirus.

If you have been using Windows for a while, you would have noticed that once you clear files from the Recycle Bin, there’s no way to recover them. This could be costly if you have accidentally thrashed an important file you thought you have already backed up.

Many consider the unavailability of the option to recover a IBM FRU 08K8193 Battery deleted file a step backward for Windows from the DOS days, where the `undelete’ file command could be used to recover a file accidentally deleted. So, is there an undelete option for Windows users? Yes, there is and, surprisingly, it comes in the form of a freeware called Restoration. Restoration works with Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and Windows XP. What this means is it will work whether your hard disk has a FAT 32 or NTFS configuration. Restoration requires no installation. You can easily run it from your hard drive, floppy or flash drive.

Limitations

Can Restoration recover any deleted file? It can recover most deleted files. If it can’t, it’s mostly your fault. The moment you realize that you have accidentally deleted a file, you must put Restoration to work immediately. The longer you wait, the slimmer your chance of recovering the deleted file.

When a file is deleted, it is not permanently removed from the system yet. Windows just frees up the space taken up by the file before it was deleted. As long as Windows does not use the space toIBM 92P1060 Battery fill it up with another file, you have a chance of recovering the file you’ve deleted. If you have done something else after removing the file from the Recycle Bin, chances are the space used by the deleted file will be written over by another file. That is why the moment you realize you have accidentally deleted a file, you should not do any work on your computer – no installing software, no downloading files from the Internet, no copying or moving files.

Also, if you’ve run disk defragmenter after deleting your files, the chances of recovering them are slim because the space created by the deleted files may have been filled up by the disk defragmenter.

Another tip to prevent overwriting of deleted files is to keep the data files in a separate drive. It’s a wise option to partition your hard disk. In case, you accidentally delete a file which not in the same directory as your operating system, you will not risk Windows overwriting the space created when you shut down or start up your system.

I did a test with Restoration and it was able to detect 212,303 files deleted from my C: drive. IBM Laptop Battery Pretty impressive isn’t it?