To enable the Administrator account, read the following document from the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Enable and Disable the Built-in Administrator Account. Manual removal of Symantec Endpoint Protection must be done from the Administrator account. It is recommended that all Symantec products be uninstalled by using Add or Remove Programs before starting this process. Warning: These removal steps can disable other Symantec products that are installed on the computer. This document describes how to remove Symantec Endpoint Protection client from 32-bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 2008 manually. Technical Solution for Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 11.0, Endpoint Protection 11.0 How to manually uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection client from Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 2008 32-bitĪrticle ID: TECH102286 | Created: | Updated: I’m not sure if I should thank the authors considering it’s their software that I had to remove to begin with. Just for the sake of “longevity”, I paste a copy of the article below. If you ever need to know How to manually uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection client from Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 2008 32-bit, this seems to have done it for me.Ī lot of tedious key removal in one of the sections, so this little script saved me some carpel-tunnel syndrome!

Even worse considering I had to do this to my PRODUCTION EXCHANGE SERVER!

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