theme park world gone tits up

[BluTacshrooms]

I tried to install theme park world to day on my PC and got this message when I tried to install it.

My system is above the minimum requirements. Also I am running XP pro I don’t know if that makes a difference or not

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

What am I meant to do?

I have googled it for a patch and it didn’t come up with anything relevant.

Please help

[Lewiji]

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00642.htm

My friend had the same problem.

[Cheechy]

install 98 :)

[BluTacshrooms]

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00642.htm

My friend had the same problem.

That’s for office.

I couldn’t do any of the things it said to do

[budrick]

Rename C:\Windows\System32\autoexec.nt to something like autoexec.old, and copy C:\Windows\repair\autoexec.nt to C:\Windows\System32. Then try again.

[Lewiji]

That’s for office.

I couldn’t do any of the things it said to do

It's the same error message, therefore the same solution.

The autoexec is corrupt, so copy a new one from the CD or repair cache.

[BluTacshrooms]

I only have the autoexec in the repair file

Should I just copy that into the system32 file?

[Lewiji]

Yes, but make sure you keep the old one somewhere in case you need a backup.

[BluTacshrooms]

Ahh ok done it, it is installing now

Thanks for the help

Now I have something to do over the next week while I'm off school

[budrick]

If the error persists, perform the same steps on config.nt.

A little background on the issue: Back in the bad old days of DOS, there were two files which were used to start hardware drivers and background programs: C:\config.sys and C:\autoexec.bat. These persisted right up until Windows 98 (possibly Windows ME? I never used it so I don't know).

Windows 2000 and XP are based on the Windows NT line, which did not require DOS to bootstrap. However, support for DOS programs is present, certainly in 2000 and XP. To achieve this, MS wrote a compatibility layer called NTVDM which basically sets up a sort of virtual machine for DOS and 16-bit Windows (3.1 and earlier) programs to run safely in. autoexec.nt and config.nt are the equivalents under NTVDM of the two original DOS startup files.

The presence of NTVDM doesn't mean that all DOS stuff is supported, though. DOS having basically no memory protection and suchlike, programmers were free to use all sorts of weird and wonderful tricks to achieve performance and memory efficiency (such as allocating and then releasing a block of memory, and then using the memory anyway after releasing it - a big no-no under any sensible OS and just in terms of plain common sense).

Got a little more in-depth there than I intended, but meh :)