All this aggravation just to use a "Problematic" application (NIS). Then
add the BS that Acer told you. You need Service Pack 2 on the PC. I
would do a "Symantectomy" on it. Get rid of all things Norton/Symantec.
There are better, less-expensive solutions available that will not cause
you on-going issues. And Acer is full of it, if they say one of their
products
cannot use Service Pack 2.
"Jamie" <Jamie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:512C292F-D710-4250-B3BF-5919700FF746@microsoft.com...
>I use an Acer Travelmate Laptop and recently installed Norton Internet
> Security 2006. This has caused me problems. My Travelmate (which is only 3
> years old) cannot function with Windows Service Pack 2 (SP2 for some
> reason
> knocks out most of the function key on the Acer - I know I tried it and
> had
> to reinstall SP1 - Acer told me this was the only solution). Since
> installing
> Norton 2006, I cannot access the windows update page, it just hangs.
> Automatic updates still work (although rather annoyingly Norton 2006 only
> gives full security coverage if Windows updates are automatically
> downloaded
> and installed, I can't permit this because I would end up with SP2
> again!).
> Symantec say the problem with the Windows updates download has nothing to
> do
> with their 2006 product but nothing else has changed on my Laptop and I
> could
> access the windows downloads page before I installed Norton 2006. Even
> with
> the firewall and personal security disabled and my browser (IE6) setting
> at
> minimum protection I cannot access the windows download page. I have
> cleaned
> the Registry, done a Disk Clean up, run a spyware and virus check and
> nothing
> helps. I have tried accessing the windows updates in safe mode and that
> didn't work either. I removed Norton 2006 and reinstalled my old 2002
> version
> but that made no difference.
>
> Anyone any ideas?
>
