Like Symantec Anti-virus. At a friends house right now, and trying to uninstall the product, it won’t – it keeps saying that something else wants to keep it there. Very unhelpful error message by they way (if Symantec is listening).
Found a great page that explains how to remove unwanted software (surprise, they also trying to remove Symantec… hmmm….).
Here it is at it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus.
In a nutshell this is how:
- Open regedit, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\ WINDOWS\CURRENT VERSION\UNINSTALL
- Then do a search for
Symantec
(or the name of the software you want to be rid of) - Copy the value of
UninstallString
- Open a command prompt (Start | Run | CMD) and paste the UninstallString here and add
REMOVE=ALL
to the end of that string, press enter.
It will look similar to this:MsiExec.exe /X{DBA4DB9D-EE51-4944-A419-98AB1F1249C8} REMOVE=ALL
- Done.