Share my way to uninstall Norton

Posted July 29th, 2008 by jerry

The other day a buddy told me his PC system performance got worsened after uninstalling Norton Antivirus. He wondered what was wrong. According to my experience, the reason for this kind of situation might be incomplete uninstalling of Norton.
Uninstalling an application either via the control panel or the application’s start menu folder can leave behind remnants of the uninstalled program. These remnants can slow down your computer while Windows tries to figure out what to do with them. Additionally, residue of old program stays behind in your system registry, clogging up your PC’s core.
Then, I tried to download a Norton Antivirus and have it uninstalled. The procession of manual uninstalling is very complicated.
1．Go to Start –> Control Panel –> Add/Remove Programs.
2．Scroll down to your Norton program
3．Click Change –> Remove All.
You will be asked to restart your PC. Do so.
4．Now go to Start –> My Computer –> Program Files. Right click on each Symantec folder and select Delete.
5．While you are in Program Files go to the Common Files folder at or near the top of the Program Files window. Delete every Symantec folder there. And, again, restart your PC.
6．Go to Start –> Search –> All Files and Folders –> More Advanced Options. Checks each option except for “Case sensitive”
Now type in Norton and delete each Norton folder from the search results (Again, right click, choose “Delete”). One more time, restart your PC.
7．Repeat step 5 except type Symantec in the “Search” box.
The next step is trickier: go into the Registry.
1．First thing to do is Back up the Registry. The presence of uninstalled security software in the Registry can conflict with newly installed security software and cause system freezes. So can folders of “uninstalled” programs for that matter.
2．Once again, go to Start, and then click on “Run”. Type in ” regedit”
3．Go to the top of the Regedit window. Click (+) next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Go down the thread until you see Software. Click on Software and scroll down the thread until you see Symantec. Right click on Symantec and choose “Delete”.
4．From there go down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and repeat step 3. Restart your PC.
5．Click (+) next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, now: Click (+) next to Software, Click (+) next to Microsoft, Click (+) next to Windows and Click (+) next to Current Version.
6．Select the Run folder. Right-click and delete each Symantec entry you see (if present). Restart your PC
I’ve consulted my friends and websites. This would help to uninstall Norton completely. But, since the whole procession is too complicated, it can easily drive any patient man crazy!
I now find some software to uninstall it. That saves really a lot of time.
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