You might face this problem when you try to uninstall norton anitivirus or any other norton product installed on your computer, it does not get uninstalled but throws out some error which is difficult to install.

This could happen due to corrupted registry or files related to the antivirus on your computer because of some virus or trojans infection. In that case neither add remove programs or programs and features in vista works.

Here is how you can solve this issue with Norton Removal Tool which is recently updated and supports norton 2010 products also.

Fix:

Norton Official Removal Too allows you to clean uninstall and delete norton products for windows force fully, now it supports the latest version of all the norton products following is the list of applications which can be uninstalled with this tool .

Norton Removal Tool can uninstall following norton products listed below

1. Norton AntiSpam 2004/2005

2. Norton AntiVirus 2003 through 2007.2

3. Ghost 2003, Ghost Version 9.0 and 10.0

4. Norton GoBack 3.1 through 4.2

5. Norton Internet Security 2003 through 2007.2

6. Norton Password Manager

7. Norton Personal Firewall 2003 through 2006

8. Norton SystemWorks 2003 through 2007

9. Norton Confidential Online 2007

10. Norton Internet Security Add-on Pack

11. Norton Save and Restore 1.0

12. Norton 360

Download Official Norton Removal Tool Version 2010.0.0.92

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Trouble 1 :

Whenever I starts my computer,after 15 minutes a message displays that Generic Host Process for  win32 Services Problem Occurred and want to close” and at the end of that message -  end error/don’t send  problem to Microsoft .When I click don’t send then my computer theme  changes for 1-2 minutes and my internet connection disconnect,after that I am unable to connect my internet connection. – Puneet

Fix:

This problem that occurs because of some windows related socket services, see  our article on Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Has Stopped Working to solve this issue.

Trouble 2 :

I am unable to Shut down/Restart/Log off from Windows Start Menu. I have shut down my system every time from restart switch and then shut down. – Sarfaraj

 

Fix:

Due to malicious scripts or registry problems, the start menu shutdown options get disabled. See this solution to Shutdown Options disabled in Windows Start Menu.

Trouble 3 :

How to remove new folder.exe virus from my PC. This is the virus when I click on it, it spreads in my whole PC and folder option get disabled. – Deepak

Fix:

New Folder Virus is a common virus about which we have given a solution before. See the solution here to Remove New Folder Virus.

Trouble 4 :

I can not uninstall Norton anti-virus which is already in my pc.I tried to remove it from add or remove programs in control panel,but it failed.Please help me to remove Norton antivirus from my PC. – Thasreena

Fix:

Due to some corruption in files and registry settings,this problem arises. See the

Norton Removal Tool to remove Norton from your computer.

Trouble 5 :

My PC is detecting pen-drives. The safely remove icon is coming in tray but in My
Computer, Pen-drive icon is not showing for removable drive. – Nitish

Fix:

This is clearly a problem of drive letter assignment in windows. See this article on Pen Drive Does Not Show Up In My Computer to solve this problem.

Hope you find these solutions useful. You can submit your problems to us at Our Submit Problem Page.

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Trouble 1 :

I have faced a problem in window xp. When i click on changed window firewall setting it show "Window could not start windows firewall / internet connection sharing (ICS) service”

- Rahul

Fix:

Many of the Windows features make use of the services which keep running in background or some of the services which are started or stopped by certain softwares as needed. The problem you are facing is because of one such stopped service. You can restart the service that is causing the problem by following our article which talks about Restarting Windows Service.

Trouble 2 :

While shutting down the computer “END NOW” option is showing for some application always when i try to shutdown.  – Ajay

 

Fix:

“End Process Now” dialogue box appears many times when shutting down windows. It is a very common problem. Try to see what applications cause this problem, you can manually close that software before shutting down, that will make it fast. Alternatively, you can use this tutorial on Registry Hack To Shutdown Computer Quickly by altering the wait time for applications.

Trouble 3 :

When I installed Windows XP on a pc with pentium4 processor and then I upgrade that
pc with Intel Dual Core processor later. Hard disk is not booting Windows and Restarting continuously. Can I use that windows without reinstalling?  – Adnan

Fix:

When you make hardware level changes to your computer by adding new hardware having considerably different or upgraded drivers, the windows may not boot. This is because the Windows XP installed on your hard disk is using old device drivers for motherboard chipset, memory controllers etc. To solve this problem, I would advice you to boot the Windows in “Safe Mode” by pressing F8 during windows is trying to boot. Once you boot in safe mode, un-install the old hardware drivers and install the new hardware drivers. See this article to know the new hardware details. After driver update try to boot Windows normally. If you still find it re-staring, I would recommend to take your data backup and install a fresh copy of Windows XP.

Trouble 4 :

How to find if any computer is infected with Virus. What are all the ways to find the virus in any computer system. – Khan

Fix:

The most common way is to observe something suspicions happening with computer applications or files or Internet connection, but this is not advisable, because there are many Trojans and Viruses which will silently steal your data and private information. See our article to Protect Computer From Virus and Trojans. Also if you think that your computer is already infected, then use these free tools to scan and remove viruses. First is Free Kasper Virus Removal Tool and the second one is Free Norton Virus Scan.

Trouble 5 :

My computer has Windows XP Service Pack 2. My problem is that USB devices like pen-drive and ,phone are not detected, but my USB mouse working fine. – R.Abdul

Fix:

The problem of Pen-Drives not working on computer is a typical case of missing or disabled USB Mass Storage Device drivers. To solve Pen Drive not detected problem, see our article on Pen Drive Not working also see this article if your are facing USB drive problem with Windows Vista.

Hope you find these solutions useful. You can submit your problems to us at Our Submit Problem Page.

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Trouble 1 :

When I try to open drive[C,D] it doesn’t open and shows a message that- Windows cannot find ‘RECYCLER\S-1-3-99-100009539-100011819-100022720-9750.com’. Make sure you typed the name correctly,and then try again.   – By Nikhil

Fix:

Whenever you get some error on double clicking on a dive, and the drive does not open, this is a clear indication of an autorun file which is trying to launch a virus or a spyware code. In above mail, the file it is trying to launch is RECYCLER\S-1-3-99-100009539-100011819-100022720-9750.com, which is not found as it might be detected and removed by anti-virus, but the autorun file is still there trying to launch the virus. In such a case, see this post on Scan and Remove Suspicious ‘autorun.inf’ with Autorun Eater

Trouble 2 :

I am not able to install anything in my XP Sp3. My antivirus shows all the .exe files as virus. How to get rid of that? – By Santosh

Fix :

This means that the anti-virus has gone bad, you need to un-install the anti-virus and install it again. If the corruption has happened due to a virus, its is quite possible that it has already harmed windows badly. You can run a full scan with Kaspersky Virus removal tool. In case you are having difficulty in uninstalling Norton Antivirus, see our article Unable to Uninstall Norton Anti-virus.

Trouble 3 :

Whenever I tried to defragment c drive, the PC restarted and a message shown  that the System has recovered a Serious Problem. How to fix it?  – By  Prince

Fix:

When system re-starts on a disk operation, like defragmentation, file copying or disk scan, there can be two problems, the disk is too full, in such case, refer to our article on How to increase disk space in case of Low Disk Space. The second most common reason is bad sectors on hard disk, to check that and other health of hard disk, see the article on Test Your Hard Disk Health With Free Utilities

Trouble 4 :

I am tired of this problem, which started because I bought a larger hard disk and tried to install WinXP on it, hal.dll is missing or corrupt in windows.   By Tibor

Fix:

This problem arises because of missing file or missing entries in boot.ini, for a detailed solution, read this article : How to fix – hal.dll is missing or corrupt in windows

Trouble 5 :

Windows Genuine Copy error – It at the bottom right corner of my desktop it is showing
"YOU MAY BE A VICTIM OF SOFTWARE COUNTERFEITING THIS COPY OF WINDOWS DID NOT
PASS GENUINE WINDOWS VALIDATION" – By Rahul

Fix:

This problem is because of wrong or re-used product code of windows. In case you get any such error, contact the vendor from whom you have purchased your computer, they might have not provided you a correct license. You can suppress this warning, but this is not a permanent solution. To suppress the warning, see the article : How to remove Windows is not genuine notification

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Some viruses corrupt the Norton Anti-virus itself sometimes, so much so that the anti-virus stops working, and you can not uninstall Norton Anti-virus.

If you try to Install any other anti-virus program, it will not install and ask you to first un-install the existing norton anti-virus. We have seen this problem ourselves as well as received a mail from one of our readers Susheel saying:

whenever I try to uninstall Norton Anti-virus from the add remove program screen I get a warning pop up that says “fatal error during installation”. It reverses what work it has done and the program is still there. The major annoyance with this program is that whenever I right click on a file or icon, I get a loading task of symantec antivirus saying “please wait while windows configures symantec antivirus” and it begins looking for the source directory, which as I said no longer exists…so I hit cancel and I get an error message reading “error 1706: no valid source could be found for product symatec antivirus.”

Don’t scratch your hair, there is a fix to every trouble , so there is a simple fix for this problem as well, read on.

Fix:

As we said, the fix is really simple, there is a tool developed by Symentec only that will help remove Norton products in case it gets corrupted due to any reasons.

Its called Norton removal tool, a small exe program (about 650 KB) . Before running this program make sure that you save your product key for installing the anti-virus later. Download the tool from the link at the bottom of this post.

The Norton Removal Tool uninstalls all Norton 2008/2007/2006/2005/2004/2003 products and Norton 360 .

Also one more warning from Symantec is: If you use ACT! or WinFAX, back up those databases before you proceed. See this page for detailed instruction on usage of this tool.

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