Installing VC7.0
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I tried installing VC7 a while ago, and ended up having to remove it. Once I did that, I was no longer able to run 16-bit programs on my NT machine. I have been searching the web since then for an answer to this but cannot find anything. Does anyone have any idea how I can get my NTVDM.EXE back running properly again? It just sits there at 99% until I kill it. Ugghh!:mad:
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I tried installing VC7 a while ago, and ended up having to remove it. Once I did that, I was no longer able to run 16-bit programs on my NT machine. I have been searching the web since then for an answer to this but cannot find anything. Does anyone have any idea how I can get my NTVDM.EXE back running properly again? It just sits there at 99% until I kill it. Ugghh!:mad:
See if there are invalid characters in your winnt\system32\config.nt or winnt\system32\autoexec.nt. (look at environment vars too) You can compare these files with the same files in winnt\repair. Reapply your NT Service pack (maybe some of the WOW files have become corrupt). Hope it helps.. Rob Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!
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See if there are invalid characters in your winnt\system32\config.nt or winnt\system32\autoexec.nt. (look at environment vars too) You can compare these files with the same files in winnt\repair. Reapply your NT Service pack (maybe some of the WOW files have become corrupt). Hope it helps.. Rob Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!
Thank you very much. I did some more searching, and found some information leading me to the same files you mentioned. I think it may have been a problem that I introduced, and not the VC7 installation. I added PATH=%PATH%;C:\utils\ to one of the files, (I may be wrong about the exact syntax). The idea was that I could use programs from my c:\utils when in a DOS window. It worked fine when using the DOS window but running 16-bit apps always failed. I took this line out, and things are back to the way they were long ago. :):):) Thank you very much for responding, and with the correct diagnosis.