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While Mr. Leary's advice re: disabling System Restore before running
Symantec's Live Update on a WinME machine may permit Live Update to run
successfully, I would comment that it is rather like removing all the brake
fluid from one's master cylinder before driving down to get the Sunday
newspaper --- not good!
If the Live Update session kills winME, one is left with the possibility of
running SR under DOS to recover.
To paraphrase Mike Maltby's frequent comment in the WinME ng's, don't take
off the parachute when "Norton stunt flying".
--
Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
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"Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
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> "portchey" <portchey@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I have just installed Norton Internet Security 2005 on my Win ME PC.
> >
> > The installation went without a problem.
> > However when I use liveupdate to update the software, once the updates
> > have been downloaded and Norton starts to install them, the screen
> > turns blue and freezes.
> >
> > The only way is to hard reboot the PC.
> > Once the PC is rebooted none of the liveupdates are installed.
> >
> > Can anyone advise.
> >
> > Thanks very much for any guidence.
>
> You will no doubt be advised by the experts here to removed Nortons from
your
> system. They have good reasons for this advise, especially if you're
using
> anything more than just Nortons Anti-Virus (which I note you are).
>
> But, short of removal, you might try disabling Windows System Restore. At
least
> when you find Live Update is telling you it wasn't do to anything more
complex
> than just virus definitions. I've found that Nortons doesn't play nice
with SR,
> especially when LU is doing anything other than simply downloading virus
> definitions. Also, on some systems, it can help to not let Live Update
run
> automatically on system start up, but to use it manually instead.
>
> - Bill
>
>