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Originally Posted by Lucy Locket Hi
It is an old programme, but i've been using it on this computer for ages, last used it a few weeks ago, so can't understand why it has suddenly stopped working. |
I've seen this something similar with autoexec.nt going corrupt with no obvious reason on a stable system.
The useful link posted by Northants Girly while correct seems very hard to read and follow and perhaps it doesn't need to be that complex.
If you try the following step below it might make it clearer what the problem still is ( please ignore it if it is obvious to you, or it is something you've already tried ).
If you go the "Run" dialog box by using the "Start Menu" or "Windows Key-R" and type exactly "notepad.exe %systemroot%\system32\autoexec.nt" ( without the quotes ) what do you see ?
Is it something like this (below), or do you get "Cannot Find File" or do you get lots of random text.
@echo off
REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.
REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a
REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.
REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe
REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir
REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx