16-bit Ms-Dos Error.

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Hey, Can someone please help me with this, I'm sick and tired of the my programs not running on this "better" PC when I cant even play the games i want or run the programs i could on my old on, XP is beginning to bug me. this is what it says.

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C:\DOCUME~1\Mike\Desktop\MIKE'S~1\HU6280.EXE
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.The System file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application

Close~Ignore
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How do i get Stop this??? or fix it. Because Thats not the only program that it will do. it mostly does it to Old school 3-D games, or most of my MS-DOS based Programs. I checked my System and I checked the script, everything seemed fine. What else can I do?????
 
autoexec.nt

Like MajehRazurko I keep getting a message on startup, mine being:

16-bit MS-DOS Subsystem
path to the program that you are trying to start or install
C:\WINNT\System32\Autoexec.nt The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.


I'm running Windows 2000 and I have not modified autoexec.nt, although it's only happened since I removed the msblast and mslaugh viruses.
Any ideas, please?
 
like the others like me... ;)

Guys i have the same @#E%@$%^ prob!!!!
I haven`t touched (as far as windows gives me the oportunity to know what changes i`m doing) or changed the AUTOEXEC.NT anyway i can remember but since there is someone here that has the same prob after he cleaned up some viruses maybe the same happened to me and i don`t know it...the message i get with any MS-DOS app is :

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16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
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C:\DOCUME~1\user\Desktop\blabla.pif
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.
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Close Ignore
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Can we correct that?
 
In windows XP, have you tried running the app in application compatibility mode?

Disable visual themes, and turn off advanced text services first. Then try the other options if that doesn't work.
 
Format

Thnx guys anyhow.
Yesterday i`ve checked a lot of resources in the net but found nothing really about my prob.But at least i know what is about now!!!Trying to remove a virus from my pc i`ve changed some values in the registry.That was the reason....
So the best way to fix that was to format my pc, because i tried almost everything before that...

See ya....
 
a fix to your problems

Hello all if you are having a error that looks like this "C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.The System file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows" first check to see if autoexec.nt is there if not you can make one with these lines in it.

@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

I recieve this measage every time I reboot my computer and have to recreate the file.
 
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