re: getting rid of symevnt.386 boot message Wednesday, August 14, 2002 at 9:56 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by John (1 messages posted) Thank You so much. That startup message sucked. Its good to know that people take the time to help one another On Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 1:09 am, Mick wrote: >To get rid of this error message (which usually occurs after uninstalling Norton >Antivirus - Crappy program, try AVG - 100% free and good at www.grisoft.com) >Click Start > Run > Regedit > >Search for symevnt.386 in the registry and delete the key you find. Should be at: > >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\current control set\services\vxd > >Search for any other instances and delete those as well. > >This should fix the problem...Visit www.microsoft.com for info on editing the registry >if you're nervous... Written in response to: getting rid of symevnt.386 boot message (Mick: Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 1:09 am) Responses to this message: re: getting rid of symevnt.386 boot message (kyle: Friday, September 13, 2002 at 1:22 pm) re: getting rid of symevnt.386 boot message (Susan: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 10:20 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Dave Boehr: Thu, May 9, 2002, 7:56 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (GM: Thu, May 9, 2002, 8:28 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Lee: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 10:59 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Michael: Fri, May 10, 2002, 1:06 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' 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