Application popup: 16 bit Windows Subsystem error

[Frank Baisch]

I can't figure out this problem. The workstation is 2000Pro on a small
network with an application loaded on the server, 2003 SBS, with a shortcut
on the desktop pointing to the application on the server. When she double
clicks on the icon she gets a 16 bit Windows Subsystem dialog box saying
this application can not run in DOS and either close or ignore. No matter
which one I click, the program does not run. It was working fine until this
week and no one else on the network has this problem. Nothing new was
loaded, as far as I can tell, on the computer. The message below is the
event log error:

Application popup: 16 bit Windows Subsystem : C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.
The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows
applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

Any assistance on this one is greatly apprecatiated.

Frank

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I can't figure out this problem. The workstation is 2000Pro on a small
network with an application loaded on the server, 2003 SBS, with a shortcut
on the desktop pointing to the application on the server. When she double
clicks on the icon she gets a 16 bit Windows Subsystem dialog box saying
this application can not run in DOS and either close or ignore. No matter
which one I click, the program does not run. It was working fine until this
week and no one else on the network has this problem. Nothing new was
loaded, as far as I can tell, on the computer. The message below is the
event log error:

Application popup: 16 bit Windows Subsystem : C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.
The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows
applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

Any assistance on this one is greatly apprecatiated.

Frank

See tip 6042 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Frank Baisch]

The fix in that post refers to XP. Will it work on a 2000Pro machine?

Frank

 

[Guest]

Replace the AUTOEXEC.NT in the SYSTEM32 directory or look on Microsoft.com
article 142271.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Frank - All of the solutions you've been given are appropriate; however,
Kelly's approach is somewhat easier in most cases:

"This installaton program will reinstall the missing or corrupt Windows XP
system files command.com, autoexec.nt and config.nt. The absence or
corruption of one or more of these files causes a "16 Bit Subsystem" error.

XP_Fix.EXE by TRF Systems, Inc.
http://www.visualtour.com/downloads/xp_fix.exe

More info here:

Error Message: MS-DOS or 16-bit Windows-based program
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_m.htm#16bit

/taskbarplus!.htm"


--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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[Frank Baisch]

Thanks for all your assistance. I had to do a full install: recovery and
repair didn't work.