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All in a days work
By Lynn | February 7, 2009
Talk about a high stress day! Yesterday was horrible. I hope I don’t have a day quite like it EVER again. The following computer escapade took up most of the day. I won’t even go into the rest of the horror that had nothing to do with my computer! : #
My Norton had expired so I renewed the subscription at the end of Jan. Since then, my computer performance had been quickly declining, until Wed when my mouse wouldn’t work properly. Then I couldn’t get my browser to work properly (especially Facebook).
Everthing I tried to do was an effort that I didn’t have in me. So I got on the blogs to see what all the error messages meant and discovered that they were all a result of Norton bugs. So I tried all the temporary fixes they recommended to no avail.
My next step was to call Norton and get a refund. Which they gave me. I then uninstalled Norton. Now for anyone of you who have used Norton, you know that the normal uninstall method doesn’t do the trick completely. To completely uninstall, you need to use their online uninstall tool (which they claim you don’t have to do).
After I uninstalled it on my own, I went to their website to use the tool (which I found the url from a tech blog). It still had a ton of files it found and uninstalled. But wait, I’m not done yet…
Then I had to purchase a registry cleaning software to get rid of all traces of Norton completely! Who do you trust? I found one that is MS certified and McAffee certified. So my registry had 587 files to fix. Not all Norton, but I suspect most of then were.
Some of them were Itunes… but I digress. So I cleaned my registry. Then I got online through an account for McAffee I had created for Katies computer. I was able to purchase a license for mine for $2.50! It’s only good until May when her’s expires, but then I can get three licenses (Mine, Kates and Jay’s) for $45.
Norton was $60 for three licenses.
So for $29.95 for the registry clean up and $2.50 for the McAffee, I am in great shape. My computer is running better than when I took it out of the box! Yeah……
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