O/T Norton on laptop
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I have Symantec / Norton GoBack on the laptop which has created 5 copies of my hard drive at various stages of the last 3 months.
Can I just delete the old copies?
I have almost run out of memory space, could this be why Youtube videos have started to take ages to play now?
Paul

I seriously doubt it!

Hi,
Have you got a DVD burner? if so get go back to back up on that, then bin the ones on the HDD, then empty the recycle and do a disc clean up. Also go into tools in IE and delete all off line content. After all that you may as well defrag it too.
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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You only need the last one. The rest you can safely delete.

I seriously doubt it!

If you have anything made by norton on your pc then its a recipe for disaster! :p

Most PC problems I fix are somehow related to Norton anti virus either slowing the machine down or knacking something.

If you want to clean out your pc a bit but arent sure what to do, download Crap Cleaner from www.ccleaner.com . Its totally free and is the equivalent of giving your pc a scrub with a brillo pad. Just read the instructions first.

Edited by webba on 13th Apr, 2007.

i agree webba :)

webba, you may have diagnosed why this bloody machine is going so slowly even after disk clean up and defragmenting.

damn you norton!

I just spent my lunch break sorting norton related problems for a friend. It was completely blocking all access to the internet no matter what you did. Uninstalled and computer booted in half the time and his internet now works.

Personally if you only use you computer for basic things e.g. internet, email, word processing etc then maybe Linux is right for you. My mum has uses it with no problems and so does my 7 year old daughter.

Edited by Doodles_Mcpooh on 13th Apr, 2007.

Edited by webba on 13th Apr, 2007.

Edited by webba on 13th Apr, 2007.

*NON TECH ANSWER*

Paul I am assuming you just use your laptop for a bit of internet and maybe pictures and some word documents etc, if so, make a backup of the things that are important to you onto a CD, get rid of the Norton Go Back, if it all goes wrong you can have your computer re-installed and you will still have your files on disk.