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RUNNING WINDOWS 3.1 ON 386
Name: HARRY EARLY Date: January 25, 2001 at 18:36:41 Pacific
Comment:
I receive the following error message when I try to start Windows 3.1 on my 386 PC. (cannot find %) (error loading program.exe)
Name: Ayexby Date: January 25, 2001 at 19:09:06 Pacific
Reply:
Boot into Dos (using a floppy or by pressing F5 when starting MSDOS. Then, navigate to the Windows directory by entering CD\WINDOWS. See if progman.exe is present in the windows directory by entering DIR PROGMAN. (Note that's progman, not program!) You should see progman.exe. If you see "file not found", then the file's missing. If it's there, it might be corrupt. In either case, you should replace it by extracting it from the 3.1 setup disks. You may also want to check system.ini (also in the c:\windows directory) to be sure that the "shell=" line reads shell=progman.exe. Running windows 3.1 setup from the setup disks would also probably fix the problem, but may be unecessarily drastic. I have also found that it is good practice to run scandisk if you have it, or chkdsk whenever file errors occur, before trying to otherwise fix the problem.
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