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Friend brought to me a 6 month old eMachine with Windows XP Home. Not much has been installed on it. For several
months he was successfully using an ancient DOS program called FIRST1. Then it broke.
Very little new programs have been installed. Besides all the things eMachine provided, I see Spy Sweeper, Quick Books
Basic, Napster and two printers (HP DeskJet an Lexmark Z715.) I uninstalled Spy Sweeper and installed Windows Defender.
He has over 200 FIRST1 spread sheets that are needed!
To facilitate rapid testing of this problem, I copied FIRST1 to a USB Flash Drive and went from PC to PC to identify
where all it works and where it fails.
My personal PC (A clone) Dual boot:
Windows XP Home (FIRST1 fails)
Windows 2000 PRO (FIRST1 works okay)
My Wife's PC ( A clone):
Windows 2000 PRO (FIRST1 FAILS)
My 'server' Dual boot (Dell B110)
Windows XP Home (FIRST1 works)
Windows 2000 PRO (FIRST1 Works)
Summary: Both Windows XP Home and Windows 2000 have working machines and failing machines.
On failing machines,I have tried setting it to run compatibility mode for Windows 95, but behavior does not change. I
tried several other compatibility settings. When it fails, it always fails with the same message.
I have compared the Properties setting for Program,Memory, Compatibility, etc. against the working machine and they are
the same.
It feels like DOS extended memory does not work on the failing machines.
...\System32\config.nt and autoexec.nt are system default on all systems.
Any ideas appreciated.
I could export over 200 spread sheets and teach Excel to the owner, but there are just too many. I really need to fix this.
Carl
Friend brought to me a 6 month old eMachine with Windows XP Home. Not much has been installed on it. For several
months he was successfully using an ancient DOS program called FIRST1. Then it broke.
Very little new programs have been installed. Besides all the things eMachine provided, I see Spy Sweeper, Quick Books
Basic, Napster and two printers (HP DeskJet an Lexmark Z715.) I uninstalled Spy Sweeper and installed Windows Defender.
He has over 200 FIRST1 spread sheets that are needed!
To facilitate rapid testing of this problem, I copied FIRST1 to a USB Flash Drive and went from PC to PC to identify
where all it works and where it fails.
My personal PC (A clone) Dual boot:
Windows XP Home (FIRST1 fails)
Windows 2000 PRO (FIRST1 works okay)
My Wife's PC ( A clone):
Windows 2000 PRO (FIRST1 FAILS)
My 'server' Dual boot (Dell B110)
Windows XP Home (FIRST1 works)
Windows 2000 PRO (FIRST1 Works)
Summary: Both Windows XP Home and Windows 2000 have working machines and failing machines.
On failing machines,I have tried setting it to run compatibility mode for Windows 95, but behavior does not change. I
tried several other compatibility settings. When it fails, it always fails with the same message.
I have compared the Properties setting for Program,Memory, Compatibility, etc. against the working machine and they are
the same.
It feels like DOS extended memory does not work on the failing machines.
...\System32\config.nt and autoexec.nt are system default on all systems.
Any ideas appreciated.
I could export over 200 spread sheets and teach Excel to the owner, but there are just too many. I really need to fix this.
Carl