[Ham-Computers] Deleting Programs - XP

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

John,

I was speaking from personal experience.  But in all fairness to Symantec the 
Tech Support guy who had me download and run the uninstaller (so that I could 
get a clean install of NIS 2005, the last version that will run on a W2K 
machine) did warn me in advance that it was also going to blow away Ghost on the 
one machine it was running on.

But to answer you final question, I don't know of any way.  Certainly the 
Norton one when I ran it on the machine that had Ghost installed didn't warn me 
what it was about to do.

In a message dated 4/13/2007 5:20:42 PM Central Standard Time, 
jandlmiller at bellsouth.net writes: 
> In a post about mid-February 2007, under the subject above, Robert Downs 
> said, "Although it probably isn't the case, on the off chance that you might be 
> using something from Symantec other than NAV or NIS (like Norton Ghost), be 
> advised that the remover or un-installer will remove that as well."
> 
> I recall quivering in my boots after reading his post, hoping that Robert 
> was not speaking from personal experience, but being mindful that all over the 
> place are "removers" and "un-installers" sufficient to wreak havoc and really 
> ruin your day.  What a revolting development to intend to remove only, say, 
> NIS and have everything Symantec removed faster than greased lightning 
> whether you really wanted to or not!
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to determine, in advance, exactly what a remover 
> or un-installer will do?
> 

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