Making Computers Behave

Every time the computer started up, an error message titled "EPSON PrinterPort" gave the message "At least one service or driver failed during system startup. Use Event Viewer to examine the event log for details." Looking in the System event log gave the following message titled "Eplpdx02": "The parameter is incorrect". As descriptive as that is, here is a combination of what I found elsewhere online to fix the problem. This might be too many steps, but it worked for me.

1. Open the Printers and Faxes folder
2. Right click on any printer and choose properties
3. Click the Ports tab and remember which port is checked for this printer
4. Scroll through the list of ports until you find the ones titled EPSON something or other
5. If none of these EPSON ports are used (none have a printer listed in the Printer column), then just click each one and choose Delete Port
6. If one of these EPSON ports is used, then the attached printer needs to be moved to another port, probably LPT or USB, depending on how it is connected to the computer. This is done by opening the properties for the associated printer and checking a different box for the port. (I didn't have this situation)
7. After deleting all the EPSON ports, recheck the box you memorized in step 3, then click ok
   
8. Click Start -> All Programs -> EPSON Printer -> Uninstall EPSON Printer Port (or something similar)
9. Rebooting will no longer give the error message