hey guys sry about just popping in for advice, but i m busy with midterms and i will probably be back online in the summer

anyways heres my problem, i have microsoft word 2003 installed with norton antivirus program. i uninstalled norton and now ms word would not run because it usually does a virus scan with norton before it loads the files. i did a pretty messy uninstall with norton(just deleted the folder when the add/remove program window would not get ride of it)

i m wondering if theres anyway that i can configure ms word not to run norton before it loads

anyways if shadow or frogger can help me out, i would be very gratful

I think the easiest way would be to re-install / repair Office. The other easy solution will be to install Norton Anti-Virus again, check if Word is launching, and then uninstall it again (properly this time).

It's going to be a pain (and a very slow procedure) to get to Word internal settings and disable whatever Symantec has added to it to make it scan for viruses. Probably involves pain-in-the-arse browsing of the registry. And I doubt it's _that_ easy... Messing about with Office internals can just make the problem worse.

Or is it the case when you don't have the CD?

Post edited by: sneg_, at: 16/03/2006 23:52

norton is split into lots of smaller programs, you realy should have uninstalled it.............

what i would suggest is repair norton (use the cd) then uninstall it - that way it will remove itself..

if word is still screwed after that, then you could try to re-install/repair word, but i would think uninstalling norton will disable the word scanning..

i ll try repairing norton k thanks