Help me please with vb6 installation!!!

[retaksoo 0]

Hi i'm new here, and I don't know what to do O_O.Whenever i would try running the setup for vb6 it would give this error saying , 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.if i click close it just freezes, i click ignore it just stops entirely and installation fails. please someone help me!

[theefool 0]

Well, copy config.nt from your repair directory.

 

Click on start, run, and type in CMD then hit enter.

 

at the "dos prompt", type in the following. Hit enter after each line.

 

cd %windir%\repair

copy config.nt ..\system32

 

if it asks for you to over-write a file, just say yes.

[retaksoo 0]

hey again it's me, thanks for trying but i did the config.nt thing that he mentioned and didn't work..here's the autoexec.nt notepad thing

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)

REM lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

 

REM Install DPMI support

REM lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

 

REM The following line enables Sound Blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM.

REM The command for setting the BLASTER environment is as follows:

REM SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330

REM where:

REM A specifies the sound blaster's base I/O port

REM I specifies the interrupt request line

REM D specifies the 8-bit DMA channel

REM P specifies the MPU-401 base I/O port

REM T specifies the type of sound blaster card

REM 1 - Sound Blaster 1.5

REM 2 - Sound Blaster Pro I

REM 3 - Sound Blaster 2.0

REM 4 - Sound Blaster Pro II

REM 6 - SOund Blaster 16/AWE 32/32/64

REM

REM The default value is A220 I5 D1 T3 and P330. If any of the switches is

REM left unspecified, the default value will be used. (NOTE, since all the

REM ports are virtualized, the information provided here does not have to

REM match the real hardware setting.) NTVDM supports Sound Blaster 2.0 only.

REM The T switch must be set to 3, if specified.

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3

 

REM To disable the sound blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM, specify an invalid

REM SB base I/O port address. For example:

REM SET BLASTER=A0

i only rem'd two lines

 

 

 

[retaksoo 0]

your way didn't work either, and it won't even let me install now, it just skips to add/remove on it now, so i guess i must've installed it? but when i click on the visual basic thing it says some DLL is missing, grr this is frustrating!btw thanks for the help though.

P.S.maybe i should teach myself C++ instead?I'm taking vb in school atm, what do you guys think?

[theefool 0]

Sorry, about that, I've seen that error with config.nt so many times, that I just went on auto-pilot.

 

instead of config.nt, try autoexec.nt

 

or, try renaming autoexec.nt to something like autoexec.bak and see what happens.

[retaksoo 0]

DAO350.DLL , and @ the C++ is there a DL for that or do i have to buY? :X

[retaksoo 0]

ok i think i understand, when i get the DLL i put it in the system32 right O_O

[retaksoo 0]

god damn!!!!! it opened!! and it said "unexpected error; quitting"

[ross_aveling 0]

Originally posted by retaksoo:

Quote:

Hi i'm new here, and I don't know what to do O_O.Whenever i would try running the setup for vb6 it would give this error saying , 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.if i click close it just freezes, i click ignore it just stops entirely and installation fails. please someone help me!

 

theefool's answer is correct in this case. An AUTOEXEC.NT file (and a valid one at that) must reside under the \system32 directory for certain programs to work. You may as well copy it to the root as well while you're at it.