Windows XP Service Pack 2

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MK TSE 👤 Member for 24 years 3 months
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My recommendation is don’t install winXP SP2 at this moment. The SP2 download from window update website been remove by Microsoft quite a while. There is no notice issued why it is removed. (I’m not sure now it is available again or not)

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Gilles Auerbach 👤 Member for 21 years 9 months
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hello ...

I had the same problem with the install of SP2... but i found a solution...



First, you have to insert your original Windows XP CDROM and to open a DOS Window... Then write in the DOS window

"expand D:i386autoexec.nt_ c:windowssystem32autoexec.nt"



Then make a copy of your file name autoexec.nt which has been created in c:WindowsSystem32 in c:.

Now you have to create a .bat file (create first a txt file and then rename it in.bat). The you write in

"copy c:autoexec.nt c:windowssystem32"

The you have each time to run that bat or to run it automatically at the start of windows...



After it works very well :-)

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Alex Wong 👤 Member for 23 years 4 months
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I think XP do have a virtual engin to run 16 bit application

What you can do is create a desktop short-cut, select the short cut, right click and select properties and select run in window 98 mode.

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Ronald Winter 👤 Member for 23 years 5 months
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Well, Bill Gates did say that he intended all users to migrate to 32-bit programs.

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Paul Maddocks 👤 Member for 23 years
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Thanks for your comments. Have solved the problem. Because P3 is a 16 bit programme windows runs it in a virtual machine that is implemented via Autoexec.nt.

I discovered that either Win XP SP 2 or another programme had corrupted the Autoexec.nt file. Once I reinstalled the Autoexec.nt file P3 worked fine.



What concerns me is that if Win XP SP 2 has caused the problem, it may affect other 16 bit programmes.

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Ronald Winter 👤 Member for 23 years 5 months
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P3 Windows Version 1.0 and P3 DOS (any version) will not run on XP no matter what you try. You can get P3 Windows Version 2 to run under XP but you won’t be able to print. It requires P3 Version 3.1 with Service Pack 2 to run P3 normally using your new operating system. Sorry for the bad news.

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Alexandre Faulx-Briole 👤 Member for 23 years 4 months
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Hello,

Did you try to use the compatibility feature in Windows and select an older Windows such as 98 or NT4?

Regards

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