Adding to Vejdin's and yogesh's post you can set, and delete the System Restore data too. Great suggestions Yogesh and PapauZ! Thanks to all of you. I will try out all of your suggestions. I will post again if I run into any problems. I reduced Internet Expleroers Browser disc usage. Does removing Norton and reinstalling the version delete the old TMP files? Rohit1gupta Spam Squasher The VirusDefs folder is using 8. There are TMP files within this folder. Here are the instructions: If you have currently installed Norton Internet Security , please uninstall it using the Norton Removal tool and install Norton Internet Security free upgrade.
Now install Norton and activate it using the same Product key. Additional Information: You are unable to delete the temp files from the LiveUpdate folder due to the Symantec Product protection. Otherwise, try to delete those files in Safe mode. Make sure that you delete only.
I have a question concerning the Synmatec LiveUpdate definition folders. U will get total definitions in 1 live update even if u delete ur vir definitions totally. U will have to download around 40 mb of live update instead of usuall 1 mb dats all.
My hard drive memory problem has been completely resolved. Thanks to all of you for your assistance. TheTenthDoctor Zu Besuch 2. Just want to have clarification before I start deleting anything. Can anyone confirm all this for me? I really need to get this fixed ASAP. Kurt Forscher 9. Hi The TenthDoctor, The only way to clean up the virus def folder is to uninstall and reinstall the Norton software that have produced the folder. The proceedure is very simple and strait forward. For your own safety perform a complete system backup, making it possible to recover back to if anything goes wrong.
Please use the upgrade option to the latest version if you have a valid subscription. Hi TheTenthDoctor. Is this BT Yahoo! Norton Security Online and which version? Message Edited by Pi on PM. Hi Pi, I believe an older set of Virus definition file is saved by Norton application for a reason.
Would you please clarify? Thank you so much! If possible and you know command line cmd. This thread is closed from further comment. Please visit the forum to start a new thread. Related Posts how do I clean out or delete files, photos from the Norton cloud services in order to free up space? How do I backup to an external hard drive? Delete Cloud backups to free up space for more. That useful data might be delete-able is, in my opinion, not just inevitable, but is by itself not a reflection on the folks putting it together.
These are things that are amazingly easy to overlook in a rush to a deadline. Yes, you can argue then the deadline was wrong, or the product scope too large, but software must ship, and each version needs to be better than the previous, or that software will die. Similarly, Windows 10 has been in continual development for over 25 years.
That there might be an accidental omission in security is not only not surprising, we hear about it all the time. It was the original bad design that allowed a bizarre, complex and convoluted scheme to copy pieces of an application including the OS in countless folders, and later in hundreds of locations in the Registry. Of course, application developers abused this scheme because they wanted a permanent foothold on your machine.
If the application needs interfaces with the OS, those are well defined and well-constrained to a few places within the OS folders. Addendum: A couple of related things worth noting. One is that the Windows installation scheme has given rise to a lucrative industry in cleaners and uninstallers.
The other is that malware designers have literally thousands of places to hide they files and hundreds of ways to execute run their applications. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam. All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication. I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read.
Search Ask Leo! The one thing you need to do before you hit delete. When running out of disk space, considering what you can delete makes sense. I'll look at the steps to determine whether a file, such as a. My C: and D: drives have many gigabytes of. Is it safe to delete these files? Summary: Deleting a file safely Back up the file or files. Delete or rename them. Use your computer to see if there are related failures.
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