PA
Mon Sep 01 11:48:47 PDT 2008
>>> As for AV etc. I had fully uninstalled NAV2008 prior to my installing
>>> Avast!
>>> *after* the SP3 upgrade as I thought that would be a good thing.
The above at least implies that you'd uninstalled NAV and installed Avast
after you'd installed SP3.
Pheasant Plucker® wrote:
> Thanks for the reply PA Bear,
>
> I doubt it could have been running in the background...I uninstalled it
> before I even went near SP3! ;^)
>
> After uninstalling NAV I noticed a new menu entry for LiveUpdate
> Notification or something.
>
> Couldn't uninstall that because it told me a program depended on it -
> strange since it appeared *after* NAV was uninstalled.
>
> I also wanted to uninstall LiveUpdate itself but at that point I still had
> Ghost installed but after the cheek of Symantec putting something on my
> system after I removed one of their products I uninstalled everything
> Norton/Symantec/Live-whatever...on all 8 machines here and I am going to
> take my last Symantec purchase back for a refund...there...I feel much
> better now! ;^)
>
> Then I ran the Norton Removal Tool & rebooted.
>
> Only then did I install SP3
>
> First time I had uninstalled NAV before a Service Pack and the only time I
> have had trouble...
>
> No big deal...I was just curious what else may have been changed as I used
> to clickon a Send/Receive button on the toolbar but it is ghosted and
> can't
> be used now...:-(
>
> Kind regards,
> -=pp=-
>
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23XzEUjEDJHA.4696@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> As for AV etc. I had fully uninstalled NAV2008 prior to my installing
>>> Avast!
>>> *after* the SP3 upgrade as I thought that would be a good thing.
>>
>> 1. Was NAV running in the background when you installed SP3?
>>
>> 2. Have you downloaded & run the Norton Removal Tool yet? =>
>>
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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http://aumha.net
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>>
>>
>> Pheasant Plucker® wrote:
>>> Thanks for the reply Alias...however helpful it might be! ;^)
>>>
>>> I never noticed it saying that I had to reboot twice before I done
>>> anything
>>> else?
>>>
>>> I've been a Windows user for many years so I gave up counting how many
>>> times
>>> it reboots in any case...with XP they said it wouldn't have to reboot so
>>> much especially when installing software but it seems that it still
>>> excessively reboots.
>>>
>>> As for AV etc. I had fully uninstalled NAV2008 prior to my installing
>>> Avast!
>>> *after* the SP3 upgrade as I thought that would be a good thing.
>>>
>>> I kept my old W2K running parallel to this one for ages while I
>>> meticulously
>>> copied configs/settings for all the programs I use to make sure I didn't
>>> miss anything...
>>>
>>> Aahh...well...I should be used to it by now but it is still annoying...
>>>
>>> Can't even see Send/Receive to put back on my toolbar...:-(
>>>
>>> Not sure whet else is FUBAR
>>>
>>> Thanks & regards,
>>> -=pp=-
>>>
>>>
>>> "Alias" <iamalias@gmailREMOVE.com> wrote in message
>>> news:g9e3ob$lkd$2@aioe.org...
>>>> Pheasant Plucker® wrote:
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> Having held off SP3 for a while until the dust settled I thought I
>>>>> would
>>>>> update all my computers.
>>>>>
>>>>> All seemed to go well apart from my main machine (isn't it always the
>>>>> way:-) where I rebooted and I saw the 'Setting up Outlook Express
>>>>> Preferences' or something similar.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why would SP3 want to do that?
>>>>>
>>>>> I see now my customised toolbar has defaulted back to something else
>>>>> and
>>>>> I don't know what else may have changed.
>>>>>
>>>>> So...why did SP3 decide to change my OE Settings and more importantly
>>>>> what exactly did it change apart from the toolbar that I can see?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How many times did you reboot after installing SP3? You should have
>>>> rebooted twice before doing anything else. You should have also
>>>> disabled
>>>> your anti virus and malware apps.
>>>>
>>>> Alias