Hi, I recently tried useing a few pc games on my pc. I bought the games a few years back for my kids and they worked ok on my last pc which was also windows xp home edition. When I tried useing them yesterday after I put the disc in it came up someyhing like "cannot be used on ms-dos", and when I downloaded a freeware game last night I got the same thing but on the requirements it said for windows xp. On the games that I bought it says for windows 95-98. Would that be the problem or should they work on the latest version of windows?
The issue with the games u have purchased that say only win 95/98 they can only b used on those OS but this can b changed if u go to ur 1)accessories folder 2)Program Compalibilty Wizard If u take the wizard through the steps it should make the programs functional again if not it is mainly because win 95/98 run on a diffrent file formating system to WinXP I hope that helped...
borhan9, depends if xp hd is formated as fat32 or ntfs. i do fat32 all the time as gives me backdoor for troubleshooting purposes!!
I have solved this one before. I need the exact error to refresh myself. It is a corrupt file in system 32. Two files are used to emulate DOS in XP. Those need to be fixed. Unfortunately I cant recall the names of them. So please give me the exact error and I can look this up for you. -Del
Thanks for the help guys, I'll give that a try Borhan9. MR_Del the exact error msg that comes up is " C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt. The system file is not suitable for running ms-dos and windows applications. Chose close to terminate the application"
do a file find for autoexec.nt. copy 1 of them that is not in c:\windows\system32 into c:\windows\system32 so that it replaces the existing or missing autoexec.nt than try the games out.
Hi, I just tried the wizard borhan9 but still no joy. I tried a whole lot of ways but I keep getting the same error msg.
Sorry ddp im not that well up on pc's. I done a file find and and two types are showing up, how would I copy them to replace the existing file ?
Thank you for the additional info. Here is your link which is the same I used when this happened to me. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767 . Good Luck -Del
Apolagies for not gettin back to you sooner ddp, I did as you said but there was still no change. Then I went through the link that Mr_Del supplied and still no joy til I got to the very end when I transfered the Autoexec.nt and config.nt files from the repair folder in windows to the system folder and all I can say is brill. The games actually work!! So thanks very much guys for the help, much appreiciated.
