Has anyone fixed their 16 bit windows subsystem error?

[Guest]

Like a lot of other people here, I have been getting the 16 bit windows
subsystem error also. I have tried both KB articles 324767 & 314106 , and
neither have worked. I have also tried norton to check for viruses and that
is not the problem. I have ran both Ad-Aware, & SpyBot Search & Destroy and
that has not fixed the problem either. I have had windows XP installed for
over two years with Cannon ZoomBrowser installed for my digital camera. I
never had a problem running it until one month ago when I first got the
windos subsytem error. I did not install or download any new programs at the
time either.
Has anyone else fixed this problem and how?

 

[Rock]

Like a lot of other people here, I have been getting the 16 bit windows
subsystem error also. I have tried both KB articles 324767 & 314106 , and
neither have worked. I have also tried norton to check for viruses and that
is not the problem. I have ran both Ad-Aware, & SpyBot Search & Destroy and
that has not fixed the problem either. I have had windows XP installed for
over two years with Cannon ZoomBrowser installed for my digital camera. I
never had a problem running it until one month ago when I first got the
windos subsytem error. I did not install or download any new programs at the
time either.
Has anyone else fixed this problem and how?

Have you seen this post by Alex Nichol, MVP?

Edit it [autoexec.nt] in Notepad. Some line has got added that should
not be there.
Aside from a lot of lines starting REM reduce it to

REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

and possibly a SET or PATH line, by adding REM and a space at the start
of any others that do not already have it

 

[Guest]

Everything looks the same to me.Ihave coppied and pasted wat was in my
autoexec.nt folder

@echo off

REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.
REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a
REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.

REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

REM The following line enables Sound Blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM.
REM The command for setting the BLASTER environment is as follows:
REM SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330
REM where:
REM A specifies the sound blaster's base I/O port
REM I specifies the interrupt request line
REM D specifies the 8-bit DMA channel
REM P specifies the MPU-401 base I/O port
REM T specifies the type of sound blaster card
REM 1 - Sound Blaster 1.5
REM 2 - Sound Blaster Pro I
REM 3 - Sound Blaster 2.0
REM 4 - Sound Blaster Pro II
REM 6 - SOund Blaster 16/AWE 32/32/64
REM
REM The default value is A220 I5 D1 T3 and P330. If any of the switches is
REM left unspecified, the default value will be used. (NOTE, since all the
REM ports are virtualized, the information provided here does not have to
REM match the real hardware setting.) NTVDM supports Sound Blaster 2.0
only.
REM The T switch must be set to 3, if specified.
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3

REM To disable the sound blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM, specify an invalid
REM SB base I/O port address. For example:
REM SET BLASTER=A0

Like a lot of other people here, I have been getting the 16 bit windows
subsystem error also. I have tried both KB articles 324767 & 314106 , and
neither have worked. I have also tried norton to check for viruses and that
is not the problem. I have ran both Ad-Aware, & SpyBot Search & Destroy and
that has not fixed the problem either. I have had windows XP installed for
over two years with Cannon ZoomBrowser installed for my digital camera. I
never had a problem running it until one month ago when I first got the
windos subsytem error. I did not install or download any new programs at the
time either.
Has anyone else fixed this problem and how?

Have you seen this post by Alex Nichol, MVP?

Edit it [autoexec.nt] in Notepad. Some line has got added that should
not be there.
Aside from a lot of lines starting REM reduce it to

REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

and possibly a SET or PATH line, by adding REM and a space at the start
of any others that do not already have it

 

[Guest]

This is how my auto exec file looks like.

@echo off

REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.
REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a
REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.

REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

REM The following line enables Sound Blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM.
REM The command for setting the BLASTER environment is as follows:
REM SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330
REM where:
REM A specifies the sound blaster's base I/O port
REM I specifies the interrupt request line
REM D specifies the 8-bit DMA channel
REM P specifies the MPU-401 base I/O port
REM T specifies the type of sound blaster card
REM 1 - Sound Blaster 1.5
REM 2 - Sound Blaster Pro I
REM 3 - Sound Blaster 2.0
REM 4 - Sound Blaster Pro II
REM 6 - SOund Blaster 16/AWE 32/32/64
REM
REM The default value is A220 I5 D1 T3 and P330. If any of the switches is
REM left unspecified, the default value will be used. (NOTE, since all the
REM ports are virtualized, the information provided here does not have to
REM match the real hardware setting.) NTVDM supports Sound Blaster 2.0
only.
REM The T switch must be set to 3, if specified.
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3

REM To disable the sound blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM, specify an invalid
REM SB base I/O port address. For example:
REM SET BLASTER=A0

Like a lot of other people here, I have been getting the 16 bit windows
subsystem error also. I have tried both KB articles 324767 & 314106 , and
neither have worked. I have also tried norton to check for viruses and that
is not the problem. I have ran both Ad-Aware, & SpyBot Search & Destroy and
that has not fixed the problem either. I have had windows XP installed for
over two years with Cannon ZoomBrowser installed for my digital camera. I
never had a problem running it until one month ago when I first got the
windos subsytem error. I did not install or download any new programs at the
time either.
Has anyone else fixed this problem and how?

Have you seen this post by Alex Nichol, MVP?

Edit it [autoexec.nt] in Notepad. Some line has got added that should
not be there.
Aside from a lot of lines starting REM reduce it to

REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

and possibly a SET or PATH line, by adding REM and a space at the start
of any others that do not already have it

 

[Alex Nichol]

Like a lot of other people here, I have been getting the 16 bit windows
subsystem error also. I have tried both KB articles 324767 & 314106 , and
neither have worked.

If the actual autoexec.nt is correct - apart from other REM lines

REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

and maybe SET or PATH lines, and dosx.exe is present in System32, then
the other check is a right click on whatever 16 bit program is trying to
run, Properties and click Advanced on the Program page. Make sure that
Autoexec file is in fact set to
%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT

 

[TexE2u]

How do I get to the autoexec.nt file to read it?
I tried explorer but it wants to know what program to use
to open and read the nt file with?
I've right clicked the dos programs and the advancd path
is set right.

My programs were running correctly less than a week ago,
but now they aren't. seems like something out there is
modifying/corrupting something for a lot of people.

Thanks, Tex

 

[Bob I]

It can be edited with Notepad.exe

How do I get to the autoexec.nt file to read it?
I tried explorer but it wants to know what program to use
to open and read the nt file with?
I've right clicked the dos programs and the advancd path
is set right.

My programs were running correctly less than a week ago,
but now they aren't. seems like something out there is
modifying/corrupting something for a lot of people.

Thanks, Tex

the 16 bit windows

324767 & 314106 , and

REM lines

System32, then

program is trying to

Make sure that

 

[Alex Nichol]

How do I get to the autoexec.nt file to read it?
I tried explorer but it wants to know what program to use
to open and read the nt file with?
I've right clicked the dos programs and the advancd path
is set right.

Notepad. Use File Open in that and look for autoexec.nt in
C:\Windows\system32

 

[Guest]

Notepad. Use File Open in that and look for autoexec.nt in
C:\Windows\system32