A few months back I upgraded to Norton AntiVirus 2005 on a computer RUNNING Windows Millenium as its operating system.  This past weekend I upgraded the operating system to Windows XP.  After installing XP, I noticed that Norton was not working and then READ the Norton manual which said to uninstall Norton when upgrading..too late!  I tried to uninstall Norton which did not work, and then uninstalled XP to start over.  Now, when booting I get an error message that SYMEVNT.386 is not loaded and to hit any key to continue, however the system locks up and hitting any key does nothing.  I need help.  Where do I begin?richie_rich66.....If I read you correctly , you have XP installed . Can you shut down and restart and as soon as it starts to boot up tap on the F8 key repeatedly and then choose the START in "Safe Mode "  . Then if it starts in safe mode ......try and uninstall NAV 2005 .
Given that you updated last week , did you use the full win XP app or a upgrade......Did you format and do a CLEAN install......because if you did you probably have all your important things backed up ....so a format and reinstall of xp would resolve your problem......remember if you do this ....to reinstall XP and sp1 then check to see if you can D/l SP2 .....then reinstall your NAV 2005
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dl65  the maybe ANOTHER way>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q303661/  when you have DONE this then uninstall nortorn and re-install winxp...dl65....no I removed XP thinking that I should start over from the beginning.  I attempted to uninstall via safe-mode, however it will not allow me to uninstall Norton while in safe mode.  I was able to remove it manually, re-booted and Windows Me loaded normally.

I am not doing a full install I am upgrading from Me to Windows XP.  I backed up onto a CD ROM all of my important data.  Hopefully I should now be able to start over again.  Anything else I should do before I load XP?  Has norton been uninstalled from the reg....(imho norton resource hogger)can cause more problems than it worth)merlin_2....I don't know.  How do I go about finding out?I would download all the XP drivers for my hardware and save those to CD, then wipe and install XP with full HD format. It may ask you for the ME CD to verify license, but it should not force you to cripple it with a ME install before XP. Use NTFS if possible, unless you have software that demands FAT32 for your HD partition.