Re: Computer won't start and 16 bit Windows Subsystem

From: Freda (Freda2340_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:12:05 +1030

To fix the 16 bit problem see following at Kellys site
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_m.htm#16bit
or
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=324767 

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"mortis88" <mortis88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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>I have 2 problems I hope somebody can help me with and they're really 
>bugging
> me.
>
> My sister and I both use the same computer and we both have our own 
> desktop
> profiles.  We recently had to reinstall Windows over a previously existing
> installation, which gave us both new desktops profiles.  The computer
> manufacturer told us to do that and said we would be "repairing" our old
> installation and we would still have our same desktop profiles, setups, 
> files
> and customizations, etc.  THAT DIDN"T WORK!!  We seem to have gotten 
> around
> that problem by restarting the computer in safe mode, taking ownership of 
> our
> old files and folders and going in and moving everything to our new 
> profiles.
> (Now that we've done that can we delete all our old files without any harm 
> to
> our current setups? The old programs don't seem to work anyway.)
>
> This first problem started about a week after I downloaded Windows Update
> SP2 on our new Windows installation.  I don't know if its related or not, 
> but
> I don't think so.  It's been about 3 weeks now since I reinstalled Windows
> and about 2 weeks since I downloaded and intalled SP2.  We both shut the
> computer off whenever we're done using it.  We do it the normal way by 
> going
> to  Start>Turn Off Computer>Shut Down and Windows shuts down and the power
> goes off automatically.  The last time I used the computer before the 
> problem
> it shut down normally. Now, whenever I try to start the computer by 
> pressing
> the power button on front of the tower, it won't come on.  This can be 
> fixed
> in two ways, I figured out one way and my sister figured out another.
>
> The first way is to press the power button (the computer doesn't come on, 
> of
> course), the toggle the power button on the surge protector off and back 
> on,
> and then the computer starts up like it normally would.
> The second way is to leave everything shut off, toggle off the surge
> protector and the power button on the back of the tower, wiggle all the 
> plugs
> in the surge protector and wall sockets (there are quite a few), then turn
> the surge protector back on then the tower power button and finally press 
> the
> power button on front of the tower, and it starts up like normal. It still
> ALWAYS shuts down normally. It just doesn't turn back on that way.
>
> The other problem is totally unrelated... I think.  I have an 80Gb Hard
> Drive and I have about 2Gb of free space left so I'm trying to install the
> Sonic RecordNow 6.5 program on it so I can clear some space. It's a music,
> video, and data burning program.  I know it works because I had it working
> before on our old profiles. Well, to get it to work I have to reinstall it 
> on
> our new desktops.  It won't install and I keep getting an Error message. 
> The
> error message dialog box "title" is:
>
> 16 bit Windows Subsystem
>
> This is the message word for word:
>
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for 
> running
> MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the
> application.
>
> There are two buttons at the bottom of the dialog box to choose from:
> Close   and   Ignore
>
> It doesn't matter which one I click on, the dialog box closes and the disk
> stops spinning.  Everything else continues to work narmally, except for 
> the
> previously explained problem.  I've thought about a virus and I have
> Webroot's Spy Sweeper, Spybot - Search & Destroy, and Ad-Aware SE Personal
> build 1.05 installed on my computer.  I've run all of them and went to the
> TrendMicro Hosecall Web Site and run it also.  None of that helped.
>
> If anyone can help with either of these problems I would be ETERNALLY
> grateful!