Installing on XP machine

[DarthYoda]

Watching the movies made me remember playing SWR. I tried installing it but I keep getting an error message when I click install: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and microsoft windows applications. Then it gives me CLOSE or IGNORE. I click ignore and it closes. I have opened the file on the disk and brought up the properties of the auto run icon to 95 compatability and it doesn't change the result. Any ideas?

[nordwindranger]

hmm a lot of us have it installed on xp with out any problem. do you have all of your microsoft updates?

 

http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us

[DarthYoda]

I have double checked and all my updates are current. I have a Dell with XP Pro if that helps.

[Eagle]

Do you run the CD in a burner? If yes than put it into a ordinary CD/DVD drive if you haven´t just tried to do so.

[DarthYoda]

I have tried it in both my Rom drive and my RW drive. I can click on the icon and it brings up the initial screen (Install, Play, Unistall, Troubleshooting, Readme buttons) but that is as far as I can get.

[Eagle]

The CD may be dirty or scratched perhaps.

[DarthYoda]

I found it, just in case anyone else encounters the problem:

 

A: This is a recent problem that is caused by upgrading to Windows XP SP2

(Service Pack 2). Apparently, in some Systems, during the SP2 installation

important System files such as: AUTOEXEC.NT or CONFIG.NT get deleted,

causing various Applications to fail and yielding the above errors.

 

The same issue has been reported to also happen after a virus attack

that is messing up people's System files and it is just running rampant.

In order to protect your System, please make sure that you have the

latest virus Definitions installed for your anti-virus software program.