[XBoard-devel] Re: winboard with windows XP SP2

[Tim Mann]

On Tue, 10 May 2005 06:38:03 EDT, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello Tim.
> I have a question. Winboard for microsoft windows XP, He is compatible with  
> XP SP2 ?
> Because when i try to install winboard on my system, i have a message "  
> c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt  file system not allowed  ............"
> thank you for your help.
> Joel  Porte 
> Blois (France)

I found out what this problem is.  This is a necessary file for running
16-bit programs under Windows, and WinBoard's self-extracting installer
is currently a 16-bit program.  Apparently it gets deleted from some
people's XP systems by mistake.  Microsoft explains how to fix it here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767

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