*sigh* I knew this was going to happen...
May. 17th, 2008 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prusikI'd decided to switch from Norton Anti-Virus to Kaspersky Anti-Virus because the latter is supposed to be less computationally intensive. (My laptop dates from 2004. It wasn't state of the art then either. Resource friendly is good.)
Anyway, the internet is all awash with how difficult it is to uninstall Norton A-V without screwing up your Windows install. So, I actually wasn't surprised when my laptop stopped recognizing the internal 802.11b/g hardware, or anything plugged into the USB port. I wasn't surprised when it froze whenever it tried to shut down.
I suppose I could have testing exhaustively to see what got corrupted when I uninstalled Norton A-V. (The wireless driver is a good suspect. Windows keep freezing whenever I tried to uninstall and reinstall it.) However, I don't keep any irreplaceable data on my laptop. Everything is either backed up to a thumb drive, my desktop or both. So I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled Windows, just in time to update to XP SP3.
Of course, now I have to reinstall applications. It should be interesting to see which applications I actually use.
(Amusingly, I may do this intentionally with my Mac when I upgrade to Leopard. However, I need to get my backup strategy straightened out first.)
Anyway, the internet is all awash with how difficult it is to uninstall Norton A-V without screwing up your Windows install. So, I actually wasn't surprised when my laptop stopped recognizing the internal 802.11b/g hardware, or anything plugged into the USB port. I wasn't surprised when it froze whenever it tried to shut down.
I suppose I could have testing exhaustively to see what got corrupted when I uninstalled Norton A-V. (The wireless driver is a good suspect. Windows keep freezing whenever I tried to uninstall and reinstall it.) However, I don't keep any irreplaceable data on my laptop. Everything is either backed up to a thumb drive, my desktop or both. So I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled Windows, just in time to update to XP SP3.
Of course, now I have to reinstall applications. It should be interesting to see which applications I actually use.
(Amusingly, I may do this intentionally with my Mac when I upgrade to Leopard. However, I need to get my backup strategy straightened out first.)
