--------Original msg------ " I have had Norton as my virus checker and security program for the last year. It is now time to renew and I'm thinking of using AVG instead. I want to be able to rid myself of all traces on Norton or as close as I can. I think I have read that simply using Norton's Uninstall doesn't get it all. Can someone advise me as to the best way to do this? I'm using a laptop with XP Home. Thank you Becky Buehrer " In addition to sven's post of 8th july at 8:06:08pm on the subject I would suggest you kindly peruse the pc soft archives for march 2005 with subject "symantic in registry" (pl note case sensitive). there are a number of usefull posts and i think symantec have a removal tool called "nav" if my memory serves right.with the help of this i have been able to remove all traces of norton from my system except for some "shared files" about which i am stil thinking what to do! HTH and good luck---Venkat Viswanathan PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml