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Thread: Heroes 2 on Windows XP
pandora
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posted July 21, 2005 07:57 PM
Edited By: pandora on 21 Jul 2005

Heroes 2 on Windows XP

For ages I thought that Heroes 2 was unplayable using WindowsXP - everytime I tried to install it i got this error

Quote:
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


So for years I decided that my days of Heroes 2 were over until I found this article at Tech Support Guy forums - and now I can play Heroes 2 again! (along with many old games)

I'll paste the article here just in case there is future problems with the link

Quote:
There has been a few issues with an error regarding AUTOEXEC.NT. There is a few simple fixes for this error.

1) Navigate to the REPAIR folder in C:\WINNT or C:\WINDOWS. Copy the AUTOEXEC.NT file to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder.

2) With the Windows XP CD in the drive, go to Command Prompt and type:
expand (cdrom drive)\i386\autoexec.nt_ c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt

(cdrom drive) is the letter drive you have your CD-ROM assigned to. Usually its D:. If it asks you to replace it, click yes.


I hope this helps some of you relive some of the fun that was Heroes2
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Fofa
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posted July 24, 2005 12:45 AM

Note taken!
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