See how to uninstall and reinstall Norton products such as Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton 360, and Norton Internet Security with the help of Norton Remove and Reinstall Tool. Before you proceed, make sure that you meet the following requirements. Remove all Norton programs for Mac using the RemoveSymantecMacFiles tool To manually uninstall the Norton for Mac, read: Uninstalling Norton for Mac. RemoveSymantecMacFiles removes all the folders that are created by Norton installers and any files within those folders including any you that have created.
Do you facing issues with Norton software in install, uninstall or license activation. Then Norton remove and reinstall tool can help you. As security software install deeply in the system to give maximum protection, so uninstalling them from the control panel or add / remove program alone leaves some entries behind. To remove all these entries use the removal tool provided by the Norton.
Download Norton Removal Tool
This is an official utility provided by Norton antivirus to remove their security products completely from the system. Download from the below link. This utility works well in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / XP for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions. This is also known as Norton Remove and Reinstall tool. (NRnR)
Below is a brief guide to use the NRnR utility.
How to remove / uninstall Norton?
Time needed: 2 minutes.
Follow below steps to remove or uninstall Norton Security completely.
- Download Norton remove and reinstall tool
Download Norton remove and reinstall tool from its official website.
- Run the downloaded file. Click Agree.
Install the tool and if windows ask, Click on ‘Install anyway’ or ‘Yes’. After that read the license and click on Agree button.
- Select the removal option by clicking on ‘advanced option‘
Now select if you want to reinstall the Norton after removal or Just want to remove. For ‘remove only‘ option click on the advanced option.
- Click on Remove button and restart the system
Click on remove button and restart the system to complete the removal process.
FAQs
Why should use ‘Norton removal tool’ instead of uninstalling it from ‘Add / remove programs’?If you uninstall Norton without proper uninstaller or removal tool it can cause issues like freezing, or getting installation or activation errors etc.
Is this compatible with Windows 10?
This method should work for all Windows versions like Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
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I’ve been having various problems working with chat boards and other sites, and a couple of people recommended to me that I remove Symantec’s Norton Antivirus from my PC. That’s fine, but I don’t know exactly how to do that. Can you help me out?
Generally, you remove applications by using the Windows utility for the task, but Norton Antivirus tends to get in a bit deeper into the system, so it’s tricker to remove it completely. Here’s how you can do that:
- Go to Start –> Control Panel –> Add/Remove Programs.
- Scroll down to your Norton program
- Click Change –> Remove All.
You will be asked to restart your PC. Do so. - Now go to Start –> My Computer –> Program Files. Right click on each Symantec folder and select Delete.
- 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.
- Go to Start –> Search –> All Files and Folders –> More Advanced Options. Check 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. - Repeat step 5 except type Symantec in the “Search” box.
The next step is trickier: go into the Registry.
- First thing to do is Back up the Registry. I’ll be saying more about the Registry later. But suffice it to say that 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.
- Once again, go to Start, then click on “Run”. Type in “regedit”
- 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”.
- From there go down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and repeat step 3. Restart your PC.
- Click (+) next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, now: Click (+) next to Software, Click (+) next to Microsoft, Click (+) next to Windows and Click (+) next to CurrentVersion.
- Select the Run folder. Right-click and delete each Symantec entry you see (if present). Restart your PC.
That should completely eradicate Norton Antivirus from your system!
Note: Symantec offers an uninstaller for NAV (Norton Antivirus) 5.0/2000/2001/2002/2003 which they say removes Norton from your Program Files and the Registry, but commentary on various discussion boards suggests that it might not work too well.