I want to uninstall nis2002

[baroth]

I have a 2 year old Emachine with 256 mb ram that has xp home on it. I want to uninstall nis2002 with hopes of not having to reformat and reinstall xp home. My copy of xp home is a compressed recovery disk and isn't usable for recovery so that complicates matters, for me anyway. I am not expert at editing the registry either.
I have not tried the add/remove programs yet as I vaguely remember having problems with norton anti virus and norton personal firewall causing me to have to reformat, reinstall at an earlier time...etc
Any help would be appreciated.....

 

[HoopaJoop]

For what it's worth, I've uninstalled nis2002 from 2 machines with no difficulties through add/remove programs.

 

[baroth]

uninstall nis2002

I haven't tried it as yet. I will backup all the files I can, then try it. I only dread trying to get all those updates for xp again, if I mess it up. I can copy my pictures to a cdr and maybe backup my MusicMatch to mp3 files and then try to get my docs on a cdr or cdrw....The rest is just a matter of a clean install.....
I think what really happened last time was me messing around in the registry!!. That was when I was trying to get rid of nav and npf.
I do appreciate the answer, thanks

 

[HoopaJoop]

Messing with the registry can be tricky. It's always a good policy to back it up before making even minor changes. Registry backups take just a moment to do, and a tiny amount of harddrive space.

I wouldn't think you'd have any problems uninstalling it if you haven't modified it's program folder any. Just don't uninstall LiveUpdate if you have any other Symantec products installed.

Good luck!

 

[Hodsocks]

There is a little tool on the symantec website that removes all entries from the registry, go to http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...85256ede00518d9d?OpenDocument&src=bar_sch_nam where there is also info on removing the product.