I'm not able to uninstall Symantic End point from windows 8.1 from Program and features in control panel a message appear for Gathering information then it disappear and when trying to Delete the root folder it tells me I don't have permissions even though I'm the machine administrator
please help
What's the exact version you're trying to uninstall?
Call support and get the cleanwipe utility to remove it.
Try this tool
http://support2.microsoft.com/mats/program_install_and_uninstall
Yes please contact support to get the cleanwipe tool. If a version that was installed on the 8.1 OS was not a supported version for the OS then manual removal steps may be necessary.