Hi everyone...hopefully somone can provide some insight. First....Since I updated, the Norton icon in the bottom right tray takes close to a minute for it to show up. Prior to the update,version 6 showed immidiatley. I have already made sure that Boot Time Protection is on.
My second issue pertains to registry issues that cannot be corrected. There are three persistant Norton registry entries that I cannot get rid of. CCleaner will clean them, but they just reappear after a reboot. Here are the entries:
You must be using some registry checker I guess. I dont advise this for the inexperienced.
The two registry settings are perfectly normal and you should leave them alone.
They reappear because they are generated by the product. Your cleaner may consider them unused because they have no entry against them but that does not mean they are not required or not to be used in some circumstance. If you are cleaning registry to this extent you are bound to get problems now or in the future.
Thank you for the response. It Is good to know that those are not issue entries. You said that the first two are not an issue, but what about the activex issue regarding the mcstatus.dll?? In fact I went to that location and that file isn’t even there.
I had this issue too. What I did was disable Norton Product Tamper Protection. Run CCleaner and fix the registry. Then re-enable Norton Product Tamper Protection.
if you look in your N360 history after you tried a registry clean, you will notice an entry stating that the attempted 'clean' of the N360 registry entries by CCleaner was blocked as an Open Process Token.
Norton say its fixed in the latest patch, so that should be the end of it.
As cgoldman notes "I dont advise this for the inexperienced."
If you are using a registry cleaner, be sure it has a backup feature so if something goes wrong with your changes, you can restore your registry to a proper working condition.
All I can say based on the words of the gurus is to ignore the N360 entries that appear on CCleaner and other registry cleaners.
If you really want to clean the registry, you’re probably best just using the registry cleaner in N360 to do this, -but be careful- one mistake with a registry cleaner or manually changing the registry could corrupt the system.
collie21 wrote: All I can say based on the words of the gurus is to ignore the N360 entries that appear on CCleaner and other registry cleaners.
If you really want to clean the registry, you're probably best just using the registry cleaner in N360 to do this, -but be careful- one mistake with a registry cleaner or manually changing the registry could corrupt the system.
My comment above stands. It is best to use a registry cleaner with a backup feature, so you can recover from a cleaning that goes bad.
I think N360 automatically generates Windows Restore Points before it performs registry cleans, which could act as a form of backup, so at least you have a method of recovering from a bad registry clean - but don't rely on that alone! Back up the registry before you use registry cleaning tools, if you're not confident with this, its best to leave the registry alone
I think N360 automatically generates Windows Restore Points before it performs registry cleans, which could act as a form of backup, so at least you have a method of recovering from a bad registry clean - but don't rely on that alone! Back up the registry before you use registry cleaning tools, if you're not confident with this, its best to leave the registry alone
Yank: Thanks for that article, pretty interesting
Can someone confirm that a restore point is created? I do not use 360 so I cannot check this.
pd123, same issue here; but using NIS 2013 with XP Home SP3. Since I get the same registry issues every time I run CCleaner...and since the file extensions are, after all, "unused"...I just right-click on each entry and chose "Add to exclude list." Problem solved, no harm done. Hope this advice is helpful.
Hi Peterweb,