"DOS" under win2k closing right away

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I recently pulled out my old games collection and wanted to play them on my pc. Anyways, I noticed they didn't have sound in dos when I played them in dos. So I downloaded soundfx and vdmsound.

 

For some reason, vdmsound never gave me the option when you right click on the file to use vdmsound. Installed both sound emus under the admins account so that should not of been a problem.

 

Now for the problem, I'm guessing somewhere I used a 16bit program cause I got the VirtualDeviceDrivers VDD error in dos. Well I fixed that by going to the microsoft site. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q254914/

 

Now the dos window closes right away (under a second) once I load a dos program. so command.exe doesn't load correctly. cmd.exe loads fine though.

 

Also command.com, config.nt, and autoexec.nt are in my system 32 folder if that somehow is related.

[Edited by Lactose_Intolerant on 2005-02-20 15:29:33]

 

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Well, I don't care about the sound right now. I can get that to work. Its the dos programs. I can't run any dos programs right now. Which kind of makes it hard to you know, install stuff at times.

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ntvdm.exe runs and lasts for like 1 second and closes. No other programs start up.

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autoexec.net:

 

@echo off

 

REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.

REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a

REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.

 

REM Install CD ROM extensions

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

 

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

 

REM Install DPMI support

lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

 

 

 

 

 

config.nt:

 

REM Windows MS-DOS Startup File

REM

REM CONFIG.SYS vs CONFIG.NT

REM CONFIG.SYS is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.

REM CONFIG.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a

REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.

REM

REM ECHOCONFIG

REM By default, no information is displayed when the MS-DOS environment

REM is initialized. To display CONFIG.NT/AUTOEXEC.NT information, add

REM the command echoconfig to CONFIG.NT or other startup file.

REM

REM NTCMDPROMPT

REM When you return to the command prompt from a TSR or while running an

REM MS-DOS-based application, Windows runs COMMAND.COM. This allows the

REM TSR to remain active. To run CMD.EXE, the Windows command prompt,

REM rather than COMMAND.COM, add the command ntcmdprompt to CONFIG.NT or

REM other startup file.

REM

REM DOSONLY

REM By default, you can start any type of application when running

REM COMMAND.COM. If you start an application other than an MS-DOS-based

REM application, any running TSR may be disrupted. To ensure that only

REM MS-DOS-based applications can be started, add the command dosonly to

REM CONFIG.NT or other startup file.

REM

REM EMM

REM You can use EMM command line to configure EMM(Expanded Memory Manager).

REM The syntax is:

REM

REM EMM = [A=AltRegSets] [b=BaseSegment] [RAM]

REM

REM AltRegSets

REM specifies the total Alternative Mapping Register Sets you

REM want the system to support. 1 <= AltRegSets <= 255. The

REM default value is 8.

REM BaseSegment

REM specifies the starting segment address in the Dos conventional

REM memory you want the system to allocate for EMM page frames.

REM The value must be given in Hexdecimal.

REM 0x1000 <= BaseSegment <= 0x4000. The value is rounded down to

REM 16KB boundary. The default value is 0x4000

REM RAM

REM specifies that the system should only allocate 64Kb address

REM space from the Upper Memory Block(UMB) area for EMM page frames

REM and leave the rests(if available) to be used by DOS to support

REM loadhigh and devicehigh commands. The system, by default, would

REM allocate all possible and available UMB for page frames.

REM

REM The EMM size is determined by pif file(either the one associated

REM with your application or _default.pif). If the size from PIF file

REM is zero, EMM will be disabled and the EMM line will be ignored.

REM

dos=high, umb

device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys

files=40

device=C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast4\aswmonds.sys

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looks like i fixed it by taking out the last line in config.nt