Windows 98 Lost When Norton Uninstalled

[llomonte]

This morning I uninstalled Norton Systemworks 2000 & now I cannot bring my PC back up because Windows 98 needs to be reloaded. After completing Initialization, a black screen comes up that says:

Error: NAV Auto-Protect is unable to start!

SYMEVNT is not loaded. You may need to reinstall Norton AntiVirus to correct the problem.

Press any key to continue...

I hit a key & it brings up the Windows 98 Setup Wizard. The first screen wants me to enter my name & hit Next, the 2nd screen wants me to agree to their statement & hit Next, the 3rd screen wants the Product Key (which I do not have) & shuts me down when I enter the wrong #.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[FuRgy]

I had this problem once, Before I installed Norton ststemworks, I had Norton anti-virus

I uninstalled Norton systemworks and when I rebooted i got that message, I just clicked Next and it booted up fine :S

Then I reinstalled Norton Antivirus again, and all was fine

I am running Windows ME

 

[llomonte]

There is no "Next" showing except in the Windows 98 Setup Wizard. I cannot do anything beyond the Wizard. It shuts the PC off because I do not have a valid Product Key.

 

[~mr mixx~]

Ok, there are two things you cam do to get this under control....

1) Try doing this, Right click the Norton Systemworks 2000 icon, properties/ then click on find target.

once it is found, add it to the starup menu.what this does is force it to startup, even if it's being disabled from something else.

2) if the above does'nt work, go to the registry and delete it manually from there. delete the folder.

also check the startup menu to see exactly what's loading up/ by start / run/ msconfig/ startup tab.