The file ginstall.exe, known as Norman Generic Installer, belongs to software Norman Product Manager by Norman ASA. The Norman Product Manager, which is a component of the Norman Security Suite that relates to the installation of software updates for the Norman Security Suite. The Norman Product Manager pops up and advises the user when a restart is necessary to continue or complete the software update. The installation process for the security software takes place automatically in the background, and will continue until the installation of the update is completed. The update for the Norman Security Suite that is installed by the Product Manager offers different combinations of the products Virus and Spyware Protection, Personal Firewall and Parental Control, and includes a new user interface. The Virus and Spyware Protection upgrade is installed as a default setting and is not based on the user-defined configuration on the previously installed version. The Parental Control upgrade is completely different from its previous version, while the Personal Firewall upgrade leads the user through a wizard to configure basic rules for the firewall.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. ginstall.exe. is used by Norman Product Manager, If you shut down ginstall.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop ginstall.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Norman Product Manager, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed ginstall.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Norman Product Manager, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if ginstall.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that ginstall.exe, belongs to, in this case Norman Product Manager