Uninstalling program

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Lewis

I am trying to unistall Norton antivirus due to using AVG now. When I go to
Add/Remove programs I have a message popping up which says "This operation
has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please
contact your system administrator." What should I do? I am the
administrator on this computer. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Lewis
 
Aaron Stebner's WebLog Solving setup errors by using the SubInACL tool to
repair file and registry permissions:
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx
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"Lewis" wrote:

> I am trying to unistall Norton antivirus due to using AVG now. When I go to
> Add/Remove programs I have a message popping up which says "This operation
> has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please
> contact your system administrator." What should I do? I am the
> administrator on this computer. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> --
> Lewis
 
Lewis

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...=hho&lg=en&ct=us&pid=2006083014455406&pkb=nav

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Lewis wrote:
> I am trying to unistall Norton antivirus due to using AVG now. When
> I go to Add/Remove programs I have a message popping up which says
> "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on
> this computer. Please contact your system administrator." What
> should I do? I am the administrator on this computer. Any help is
> greatly appreciated.
 
"Lewis" <Lewis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EAAE0D95-2198-40FB-AE8C-35E23935DD05@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to unistall Norton antivirus due to using AVG now. When I go
>to
> Add/Remove programs I have a message popping up which says "This operation
> has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please
> contact your system administrator." What should I do? I am the
> administrator on this computer. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> --

You cannot uninstall Nortons AV this way. You are lucky that something
stopped you. Many people find that trying to uninstall Norton this way
leaves them with a PC that either won't boot at all, or keeps resetting
itself.

If you go to the Norton website, there is a tool which should remove it -
but make sure you have a backup first.
 
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