[pchelpers] Re: Can you reply asap please?

Yes, as you see in my note I said I told him how to do that.  I just 
worded it that it was from the 'start' menu - but he did it in msconfig 
startup.
Apparently it's still popping up.

Cliff Winburn wrote:

>You can always click on Start, then run, and type in msconfig. This will bring 
>up the microsoft Configuration utility. On it there will be a tab labled 
>Startup. Click on that tab and uncheck anything involved with norton, toy will 
>have to reboot to make it effective. Oncew you reboot a pop up from msconfig 
>will show that you have used it, but you can check a box on it saying for it 
>not to show and it will go away.
>"G. R. Hanson" <grhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hello.
>My father in law got a new Dell laptop. He did not purchase antivirus 
>software from Dell. No 'free trial' antivirus software was offered. 
>Apparently it has Norton software on it though.
>
>Well, each time he turns on his pc he gets a popup from Norton about 
>antivirus. I don't know what it says, just that he is annoyed with the 
>popups. I had told him how to go to his start menu and uncheck it. 
>Apparently this did not work as he wants me to call him and over the 
>phone tell him how to get it to stop.
>  
>




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