I was attempting to install a visual style for XP which comes in a self-executable 16-bit EXE file. It's from the same guy who I always use for my visual styles, so there's no viruses etc. in the file (I already checked myself, anyway). However, everytime I run the file, I get the following error: S32EVNT1.DLL An installable Virtual Device Driver failed Dll initialization. Now, the problem with this is that it points to Program Files/Symantec as the source of the DLL file. However, that folder, nor the DLL doesn't exists as I uninstalled Norton AV a while ago. I searched for the DLL and found it in Windows/system32. I tried deleting it as well as deleting and then re-creating the VDD (Virtual Device Driver) entry in the registry and neither solved the problem. However, when I re-created the VDD entry and ran the EXE, I didn't get the error. Instead, the DOS screen flashed for a second and then nothing else happened. Obviously, I'm pretty confused now so I'd really appreciate it if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this. Thanks.

If THIS does not help, post back and we'll figure out something else. i_XpUser

i have gotten an error report similar to that one (mentioning the 16 bit Windows subsystem) when I tried to open a JPEG picture saved to my Hard Disk. I couldn't figure out what was wrong, but when I started opening the JPEGs with Photoshop, everything worked ok again. Strange...

I saw that site, but that's why I'm confused. It shouldn't have anything to do with Norton because I unintsalled a along time ago. Not only does the error point to file that doesn't exist, but it also points to a folder that doesn't exist.