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Hi,
I have Norton Antivirus installed and I've recently corrupted my registry. I've restored the registry, but it's a rather old backup. When i turn on the computer, before Windows has been loaded, a screen comes up and says that the virus definitions can't be found. I push the spacebar and it goes away and windows loads normally. I've looked at my boot-sector but I don't see anything related to Norton. Any ideas as to how I can get rid of that screen?
-George
Try uninstalling/reinstalling Norton.
Change the Run map in the registry.....or is that what you call the boot sector. BTW what OS are you on?
The boot sector is a bunch of sectors at the beginning of a drive that allows the system to boot.Quote:
Originally posted by NoteMe
or is that what you call the boot sector.
You probably know that though...meh.:)
That was what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure....then you better check the Run cataloge in the registry...
I would go with this option but before that try to update the product with Live Update and see if it fixes it...Quote:
Originally posted by siyan
Try uninstalling/reinstalling Norton.
Cheers...
If he has the same problems like me on the machine with Norton. It would not uninstal it if it had a problem, and it would not install a new copy of over the old one, because it can find the old one. So I had to delete all the 100*n entries in the registry...hehehe...that is what I call fun....
Old copies of Norton check your computer before Windows boots. What I'm thinking is that he had an old copy, installed a new copy, and then restored the registry that had the old copy still on.
Uninstall Norton, install the old version, uninstall the old version, and reinstall the new one.