Now the password request box will have disappeared, and the uninstall process will complete on its own. Note: There may be more than one, if so select the one that running under the user account that you a logged on as DO NOT select it is it is running under the SYSTEM account. Select the processes tab, Locate the MSIEXEC.EXE service. Launch Task Manager, (Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Or right click the taskbar, or simply run Taskmgr.exe).Ģ.

While still being asked for the password, do the following.ġ. The same fix worked for both of them, and its painfully easy. One of the other machines had Symantec Endpoint Protection installed and this did the same.Īs expected, no one knew what this password was, and the default password ‘symantec’ didn’t work. When I tried to remove it, it asked for a password. When prompted to reboot, please run the following from an administrator command prompt: C:WindowsSetupscriptsAddSymantecFilesNeededForBoot. Once done, create the Symantec layer based on the new OS layer and run through the installation.

On one machine I found it had Symantec AntiVirus. The new package will need to be extracted on the OS layer first. I was finishing off a domain migration this week and was changing the clients over to McAfee.

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