How to Uninstall Symantec Norton 360 Completely With No Trace

May 21, 2012

Are you having a hard time removing Norton 360? Or looking for solutions to uninstall Norton 360 from your computer? Norton 360 is surely one of the most popular anti-virus software in the world, but sometimes it can also get troublesome as you may find it can not be removed, instead, you receive error messages that stop you from uninstalling Norton 360.

This uninstall instruction provides you 3 different uninstall solutions, no matter what kind of situation you are in, one of them should help you uninstall Norton 360 successfully.

Solution one – Uninstall Norton 360 with its build-in uninstaller

Step 1: Close the program if it is running

Step 2: Remove Norton 360 from Add/Remove program

Go to Start menu, click on Control Panel.
Click Add/Remove program.
(for Windows 7/VIST users, click Uninstall a program link under the Program category)
Select Norton 360 in the list.
Click Change/Remove button behind the program name.

(Or click the Uninstall option in Windows 7/VIST)
Select your uninstall preferences, if you want to completely remove Norton 360, select the second option of “Please remove all user data including my stored passwords & quarantine contents.

If you got nothing to tell, click next button.

Waiting for the uninstall process finished

Click the Restart Now button.

Alternative: The uninstaller can also be accessed from Start > All Program > Norton 360 > Uninstall Norton 360, then repeat the last three steps above to uninstall the program.

Step 3: Remove leftover folder/file

Click Start > Search
Click All files and folders
Type “Norton” in the “all or part of the file name” section.
Click Search button
Select all the found files and folders, right click to delete them all.
Empty the Windows Recycle bin.

Solution two – Uninstall Norton 360 automatically

Fail to uninstall Norton 360 with Add/Remove program? See no respond while clicking the remove button? Encounter error when perform the removal? Why not try Max Uninstaller – the most effective software uninstaller that help you remove any stubborn/broken/damaged program completely within clicks, Norton 360 removal is sometimes a tricky task, if you went into trouble, Max Uninstaller would definitely help. See the below video instruction and detailed steps.

How to Uninstall Norton 360 completely with Max Uninstaller – Video demonstration

Step 1: Download Max Uninstaller here, install it in your computer.
Step 2:Open Max Uninstaller, select Norton 360 in the right hand list, then click “Run Analysis”

Step 3: After all program files/folders and associated registry entries are scanned out. Click “Complete Uninstall” to start the Norton 360 removal. Click “Yes” to confirm the action.

Step 4: Wait for the standard uninstall completed. Click “Restart Later”.

Step 5: Click “Delete leftover” and Max Uninstaller will conduct a full scan on your computer for program leftover.

Step 6: After the scan finish, click “Delete Leftovers” and “Yes” button to thoroughly remove all the leftovers.

Step 7: Max Uninstaller has now fully uninstalled Norton 360 related files and extensions. Click “OK” to finish, then reboot your system.

Solution 3: Use the removal tool provided by symantec

Click here to download the Norton removal tool, save it to your desktop
Turn off Norton 360 if it is running
Double click the downloaded Norton_Removal_Tool.exe and the tool will start to uninstall the program
Reboot your computer after the removal.

Note: this removal tool can help you to remove Norton 360 program folders, but certain leftover files and registry entries will probably be left in your system. You need to perform the Search action like Step 3 in solution 1 to check for the remains and open registry editor to delete all the left registry entries.

Shortcomings of the common uninstall methods

Add/Remove programs and program’s own uninstall utility is the most two common ways people tend to use to uninstall the program from computers, but now it seems like not so convenient and effective for people to get rid of the applications, what’s the matter?

Incomplete removal. Open the Start menu, click on the Control Panel, and then activate the Add/Remove program. No matter what kind of application you want to uninstall, you can easily go to the location and perform the removing job. For many computer users, Add/Remove programs service on the Windows system is a fast way for people to uninstall program. But now, the complete removal of the program seems more complicated in Add/Remove program utilities, even though the removing process has accomplished, people still can find some components store on its install folder, some of them even cannot be removed by hand. And as another common uninstall method, using the program’s own uninstall utility will also has this problem, more

Time-consuming removing process. In order to thoroughly remove the program from computer, after finishing the uninstall process in Add/Remove programs and program’s own uninstall utility, people still need to delete all of the remnant files manually, which will be a big project and should spend much time to accomplish it.

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