rhema7 Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 A friend of mine bought a used Toshiba from a defunced company.Toshiba A10-s177XP Pro SP 2512 MB RAM40gig HDDPentium 4 2.2ghzThe Problem The system is slugish (I Have cleaned her out had a couple Trojans from the kid DLing)with the low resources I figure Norton AV is doing it's number. This is setup to accept updates from a network server so I decided that removing it and installing a less resouce hungry AV would be better (I will be installing more RAM though). It is password protected so I cannot uninstall.Since the company is nolonger around we cannot find the SA to ask him (as if he/she would remember). Granted the best course of action would be to reinstall the OS but I have had trouble finding the drivers (came with no disks) for the components.and really don't feel like giving anymore free time to this profit free project.Question Does anyone know how to remove the password from Norton AV. I have the removal tool to run after the uninstall just need to get to that point.Preston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 (edited) Try symantec as the password. It is the usual default.Check out some of these links for the Norton problem.Password management in Symantec System Center 6.x or earlierNorton AntiVirus Corporate Edition or Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition prompts for password when uninstalling clientsMore tips that include changing registry.Check here for the drivers. Select Portables> Satellite> A10-S177. You can now filter for OS and what driver, patches or updates that are needed.Toshiba Support Edited April 6, 2007 by TheTerrorist_75 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Also see if the Norton Removal Tool helps. I am unsure if this will still prompt for a password. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhema7 Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 thanks your you help I did a manual uninstall. Preston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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