February 6, 2005

• 16 Bit Windows Subsystem                                              

  
  

  c:WindowsSystem32Autoexec.NT.  The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows Applications.  Choose "close" to terminate the application.

  
  

  Yesterday afternoon the boys asked if they could "build houses".  In other words, would I please load the SIMS onto my system and turn them loose in all their creative genius.  Sure, no problem.  Only ... there was a problem.  I tried a few things that I thought might fix it dinking around with XP.  They didn't work.  I went onto the internet and checked for XP versus SIMS problems.  Didn't find anything helpful. 

  
  

  Finally rather late last night, I called Tim and asked for his suggestion.  He suggested that I put the error message into a google search and see what I turned up.  I did that.  And foudn all kinds of hopeful suggestions including a little executable that promised to fix the problem.  Only, it didn't.  In fact, what it did was slow my system to the point that it was taking 3-7 minutes PER MOUSE CLICK to perform any function.  So last night I was discouraged, defeated, and resetting my system to previously saved settings.

  
  

  This morning, I went back out looking and found it.  The autoexec.nt file was in the Windows REPAIR folder instead of the SYSTEM32 folder.  I moved the file, the problem went away.  The boys have spent the past ... almost 5 hours ... building houses. 

  
  

  I feel triumphant. 

  
  

  It's all good.

  
  

  

  
  

   

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