NTVDM Environment Destroyed by Program Installation

[Guest]

Some time ago I discovered that some activity that I was doing was destroying
my NTVDM environment which meant that no 16 Bit programs would run following
a certain event on my computer. This was very frustrating to me and it meant
that I had to rebuild my whole computer setup to overcome this - As far as I
was concerned there was no work around that I could either find nor could
anyone else assist me.
Finally I discovered the cause on my machine which may interest other people
with the same problem - The installation of McAfee Privacy Service destroyed
the ability of the machine to run any 16 Bit program. It wasn't the actual
installation which caused the problem but the Re-Boot which has to follow the
installation to finalise it. I have advised McAfee of this but they did not
seem very interested. It caused me probably 40 hours of my time to discover
this and I thought others might be interested. De-Installing the Privacy
Service does not fix the problem - You have to reset your system to a time
prior to the installation and not attempt to install it again - A real trap
for new beginners!! As far as I am concerned the other 3 modules of McAfee
work just fine.There are many posts to do with this so this may assist you

 

[Richard Urban]

Thank you for this feed back! This is what the news groups are all about -
helping others. I am sure that there are many in your situation.

A few years ago I found that by installing Winfax Pro 10.02, "after" having
installed Office 2000, that the Office install would break - every single
time. I told people to install Winfax first and reboot - then install
Office 2000.

I remember a fellow asking me how in the world I was ever able to determine
this. I told him from many hours of detective work and about 15 clean
format/installs of the operating system. He was incredulous that someone
would spend this amount of time in tracking down a problem.

Again, good work!


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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!