Problem opening application

[Pete]

My PC has developed a problem over the weekend, worked
fine yesterday. Tried to open an application which worked
ok yesterday but a message box popped up which read "16
Bit Windows Subsystem" and then contains the following
message..........

C:\Windows|system32\autoexec.NT. The system file is not
suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows
applications. Choose 'close' to terminate the
application.

The application I'm trying to open is a Windows
programme. Any clues as to how to solve this problem.

Thanks in anticipation
Pete

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Error Message When You Install or Start an MS-DOS or 16-Bit Windows Based Program
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767

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Windows XP - Shell/User

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| My PC has developed a problem over the weekend, worked
| fine yesterday. Tried to open an application which worked
| ok yesterday but a message box popped up which read "16
| Bit Windows Subsystem" and then contains the following
| message..........
|
| C:\Windows|system32\autoexec.NT. The system file is not
| suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows
| applications. Choose 'close' to terminate the
| application.
|
| The application I'm trying to open is a Windows
| programme. Any clues as to how to solve this problem.
|
| Thanks in anticipation
| Pete

 

[Alex Nichol]

My PC has developed a problem over the weekend, worked
fine yesterday. Tried to open an application which worked
ok yesterday but a message box popped up which read "16
Bit Windows Subsystem" and then contains the following
message..........

C:\Windows|system32\autoexec.NT. The system file is not
suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows
applications. Choose 'close' to terminate the
application.

The application I'm trying to open is a Windows
programme. Any clues as to how to solve this problem.

It may be an old 16 bit Windows app, that runs in that subsystem, and
the file
C:\Windows\system32\autoexec.nt file has got damaged. Check it out with
Notepad.

Aside from possible SET or PATH lines at the bottom, and and lines
starting REM (just comments - there are a lot), it should have just

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 the first two of those lh lines can often be remmed out too)