Can't run 16-bit Windows applications

[Guest]

We have the good ol' Windows Entertainment Pack game programs (things like
Chip's Challenge) installed on my wife's computer, and she really likes them.
About a week or two ago, they stopped working. Every time we try to run one,
we get an error like this:

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16 bit Windows Subsystem
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c:\temp\. A temporary file needed for initialization could not be created or
could not be written to. Make sure that the directory path exists, and disk
space is available. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
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Close Ignore
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I have tried ALL of the various solutions contained in the KB articles
people quote in this discussion group -- restored AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT,
verified that COMMAND.COM is correct, made sure the VDD key in the registry
is clean, checked permissions on the temp directory, etc. There's plenty of
disk space. I can manually create files in the TEMP directory (which
originally was set to the Local Settings\Temp directory in my wife's profile,
but which I redirected to c:\temp by changing the user environment variables
just to see if the location of the directory made a difference -- it didn't.
I even tried just running command.com from within cmd.exe, and get the same
error -- so I KNOW it's not actually trying to create a temp file, but is
just having some other problem that is masquerading as this one.

It seems as though for a few people, replacing AUTOEXEC.NT fixes the
problem, but it hasn't worked for me. A LOT of folks, not only here but on
other support forums all around the internet, seem to have this problem, and
just give up on it because they don't get any helpful response.

Have anyone actually solved this problem?

 

[Guest]

Do these programs run off of a CD or the hard drive?

What you should try is right-clicking on the executable file (something.exe)
and click properties. Click on the Compatibility Tab, check "Run this
program in compatibility mode for:" and choose Windows 95. Click OK and try
running the program.

Hope this helps you out!

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Check the Permissions on C:\Temp

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Guest]

Do these programs run off of a CD or the hard drive?

They're all installed on the hard drive, and have been working fine from
there for years -- up until a couple of weeks ago.

I should mention that I have AdAware and Microsoft AntiSpyware installed, a
a complete scan found nothing. I also ran HiJackThis and found nothing
unexpected.

What you should try is right-clicking on the executable file (something.exe)
and click properties. Click on the Compatibility Tab, check "Run this
program in compatibility mode for:" and choose Windows 95. Click OK and try
running the program.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but it didn't help -- same result.

-- Toby

 

[Guest]

Check the Permissions on C:\Temp

Thanks for the suggestion, Wes. The "Irene" account that is logged in has
"F" access to C:\Temp, as does the Administrators group (and Irene is an
Administrator). I confirmed this by writing a file to the directory, reading
it, and deleting it.

-- Toby