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    SWSetup and Lingering Norton

    Discussion in 'HP' started by jong81, Feb 21, 2008.

  1. jong81

    jong81 Notebook Consultant

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    Two questions:

    1. I deleted my recovery partition after successfully creating restoration disks for my Pavilion. However, I still notice this SWSetup folder. Is it necessary to keep this on my HDD? Does my computer use it for any reason? If I ever needed it, it's on the recovery disks I created, right?

    2. I went to Control Panet/System/Performance/Advanced tools and it gives you any known errors that may be slowing down performance. It's still listing Symantec (Norton) as causing a slowdown during startup. I can't find it anywhere. Where could it still be loading from. If I hit "remove from list" will that fix it? There doesn't seem to be any instructions on how to fix it - just tells you there's an issue. When I removed Norton, I used the Removal tool, but apparently this startup file is still there somewhere. I've tried msconfig - it's not starting up from there. And I've checked out the startup services - not there either. Any ideas?

    Really, I should just do a clean install, but I may not get to that for a while.
     
    jong81, Feb 21, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    1)Burn the SWsetup folder into a DVD then delete it and dont ever worry about it. Yes it is in the restoration disks, but you need to do a restoration install first to get to it.

    2) Its probably just a registry error, still listing it as existant. Use Ccleaner to clean up this up
     
    flipfire, Feb 21, 2008
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  3. radopod

    radopod Notebook Evangelist

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    Do a clean install. I would be doing that later tonight. I am pretty sure a clean installation will help you a lot! Norton is a resource hog. Get some other AV if you are not a fan of Norton.
     
    radopod, Feb 22, 2008
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  4. jong81

    jong81 Notebook Consultant

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    No - as I said - I already used the norton removal tool to get rid of it. I think the performance log was from a previous date anyway. Windows is lying to me. I looked in that event thing and it lasts reports the "degradation" in boot on 2/10/08 - I think that's around the time I had uninstalled it. Probably a false alarm on that.
     
    jong81, Feb 22, 2008
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  5. dinapoli

    dinapoli Notebook Consultant

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    I agree with Radopod you should do a clean install
     
    dinapoli, Feb 22, 2008
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  6. jong81

    jong81 Notebook Consultant

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    Okay! Okay! I'm gonna try and borrow Vista disks from my friend this weekend, because I only have my recovery disks. You are all clean install happy! Lol.
     
    jong81, Feb 22, 2008
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  7. Leo7

    Leo7 Notebook Evangelist

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    I agree with dinapoli and Radopod you should do a clean install :D

    Just don't forget to burn SWSetup to a DVD.
     
    Leo7, Feb 22, 2008
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