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fade2black · 2005-08-05 22:50:03

WTF? I downloaded a pretty cool game and this thing is stopping me from playing it....any ideas?

05-08-2005 10:50pm

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fade2black

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C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.NT. The System file is not suitable for running Ms-Dos and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose close to terminate the application.

WTF?

I downloaded a pretty cool game and this thing is stopping me from playing it....any ideas?

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#2 05-08-2005 11:31pm

John R

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The first result from a google search of " C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.NT" looks like a pretty good answer.

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#3 05-08-2005 11:34pm

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looks like it's trying to run it in DOS mode and failing. is it an old game?

big file?

can ya send a link? I like games! and I'll see if I get the same error!

EDIT: what ^ he said

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#4 05-08-2005 11:48pm

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The Game

Will check out the google result now

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#5 06-08-2005 12:01am

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FYI:
downloaded it and it worked for me. i'm running windows 2000 SP 4.

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#6 06-08-2005 12:10am

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cool....i followed the advice from the google search and everything is working now....just a case of copying and pasting a file.

thanks

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