It should not be necessary to delete ALL of Norton Antivirus.
Disabling the Office Plugin should have been sufficient. I've
been providing tech support for PCs with various versions of
Norton and McAfee for the past 10+ years, and personally prefer
Norton to McAfee (but some users disagree with me, so that's why
we have both!). Seems like a waste to throw the baby out with
the bath water, especially if you already paid for the baby.

bri wrote:

thanks for the advice it cut the time down considerabley. I have now
deleted norton antivirus and remove every mention of it in the
Registry. everything load correctly now will have to use a different
virus checker

thanks
bri