What's With Recyler/nprotect?*

[rikytik]

As a footnote, I ended up wiping the hd on my test machine and doing a clean install of xp and find that Recycler/Nprotect is installed by Windows XP, not Norton, as I had supposed.

I've installed Norton AV Pro (instead of standard). The Norton Protected Reclye bin is disabled now as recommended. Cool. Thanks for all the tips.

The reason I did a clean install is not on account of this problem but because I run an unscanned exe file (from a questionable source) that had a SubSeven trojan in it. It zapped my MBR which caused Power Quest Drive image to fail to run, either from Windows or from the dos diskettes Error #91. By the time I discovered how to fix that, I'd done so many things to the system (which was still working fine, by the way) that I decided to bite the bullit and do a clean install. --afterall it's my test machine.

[KingCobra]

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rikytik Posted on Oct 2 2003, 03:47 AM
mikeh420 and Cactus. Yep that's it. I had Pro version installed and uninstalled it then installed Standard. What wasn't purged before teh switch apparently stayed there.

It does look like once you uninstall Pro, you are stuck with the Recycler/Nprotect directories, tho you can delete the files as mentioned in the threads from the aota/forums site. No lost space in that event, tho on the one machine I do have about 30mb in 6 minles that will not delete.

I just disabled it and then noticed I still had some files I didn't purge. Guess what... Yep it wouldn't let me purge them until I enabled the Nprotect again.

[Dudelive]

I just checked and on 2 that I have running there is no "nprotect" file found when doing a search and I have hidden files enabled. I even looked in the recycle folder and there is nothing found like you mentioned.

ps: I is running Norton Cor. and one is running AVG

[rikytik]

Do you have "RECYCLER"? It should appear in the root of each partition on each hd. That's where deleted files are stored. Click on recycler and you should see some other files with numbers. Double click on one of them and you may see Nprotect. This is true of my 2 desktops (one with a new clean install before Norton was installed) and 2 laptops. Although not every partition has nprotect in the RECYCLER directory.

Even tho I have hidden files enabled, nprotect didn't show unless I double clicked the folder inside RECYCLER. It was the nprotect folder where I found many undeleted files that I hadn't purged before I uninstalled Norton 2004.

On the clean installed test machine, I installed NAV 2003 Pro and disabled the Norton Protected recyle bin, but there are Nprotect folders in each of the 3 partitions (2 on Drive #1 and 1 on Drive#2) but they are empty except for the Nprotect Log.

The lesson I learned was to always purge a Norton Protected Recycle bin before disabling it or before removing NAV to try something else. Otherwise the only way you can delete what is left behind is through the command prompt.