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I hope this is the right forum for this.
I fairly recently downloaded and installed Norton Antivirus, and I hate it. It makes my computer take forever to boot up, and I hate how un-user friendly it is. I want to uninstall and get rid of it, but everyone I know who has had Norton in the past has had to reformat their hard drive in order to uninstall it because of how clingy Norton is to the registry, and this always happens when they attempt to uninstall. I have absolutely no method to back up the 20 gigs of music, games, stories, and art on my computer - I can't afford a second hard drive, much less enough burning CDs or 1-gig flash drives to back it all up, so I'm terrified of attempting it. There's no way for me to replace 80% of the things on my computer, especially since I'm on dial up and can't download 20 gigs of files anyway.
I have a backup antivirus program I'm more than willing to renew as soon as I can get Norton off my computer, but like I said, after hearing my friends' horror stories of uninstalling it (5 people, mind you), I'm terrified of attempting it. Is there any way I can get it off my computer without having to reformat and lose everything?
I fairly recently downloaded and installed Norton Antivirus, and I hate it. It makes my computer take forever to boot up, and I hate how un-user friendly it is. I want to uninstall and get rid of it, but everyone I know who has had Norton in the past has had to reformat their hard drive in order to uninstall it because of how clingy Norton is to the registry, and this always happens when they attempt to uninstall. I have absolutely no method to back up the 20 gigs of music, games, stories, and art on my computer - I can't afford a second hard drive, much less enough burning CDs or 1-gig flash drives to back it all up, so I'm terrified of attempting it. There's no way for me to replace 80% of the things on my computer, especially since I'm on dial up and can't download 20 gigs of files anyway.
I have a backup antivirus program I'm more than willing to renew as soon as I can get Norton off my computer, but like I said, after hearing my friends' horror stories of uninstalling it (5 people, mind you), I'm terrified of attempting it. Is there any way I can get it off my computer without having to reformat and lose everything?