Hi boys and girls,
I have an old dos program that work fine under win98 and winnt but not under win2k.
Somebody know a way for run this type of program under win2k?
I think in Win2k you are out of luck, you can do this in WinXP by formatting a floppy as a system disk and booting from it - this will put you in a true DOS environment. My hardrive is not formatted NTFS and this works OK- of course you may have to reset environment variables and modify the autoexec.bat file on the floppy to run a dos mouse driver.
Hi boys and girls,
I have an old dos program that work fine under win98 and winnt but not under win2k.
Somebody know a way for run this type of program under win2k?
I'm wondering that your DOS program runs under NT. On the Win2000-CD there's a program (somewhere hidden in the CAB-files) called "apcompat.exe". This is for compatibility to older applications telling them another OS-version. You should try it ....
I'm wondering that your DOS program runs under NT. On the Win2000-CD there's a program (somewhere hidden in the CAB-files) called "apcompat.exe". This is for compatibility to older applications telling them another OS-version. You should try it ....
Vmware is an amayzing soft that allows you to install several different guest OSs under your host OS. So you can install NT4, Win98, DOS, linux as virtual machines and run them as if they were real computers.
See www.vmware.com
in prospective of the comming problems caused by good oldies running under newer OS, i decided in early times to reserve always a small partition for the latest dos 6.22. It takes only a few numbers of MBytes and works more convinient and reliable then all other solutions!
most DOS programs, which can't work under Win 2000 or XP are this tools which uses some hardware resources without the driver, which provides the OS (Win 2000 or XP)... For example (not working programs) - all tools which uses COM ports and parallel port as programmers and etc...
Maybe your sollution is vmware?!?!? but it's not free - you can buy it or crack it...