Re: DOS incompatibility



Hi happy_hippy,

Yes, that's been a common error message since SP2 was shipped.

Glad to see your issue is resolved. :-)

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happy_hippy Wrote:
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| Part of the error message was somthing about 'autoexec.nt'. Somthing
| like C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/AUTOEXEC.NT is being weird or somthing lol. So
| anyway i tried to find this file in the system32 folder and it wasnt
| there. It was hiding in a folder named 'repair'. So i moved it to
| SYSTEM32 and now i can run DOS games simple as that. I havent come
| across any that havnt worked.
|
| steve


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