Hi guys i really need your help.

I downloaded a software trial for a program from a website. The program is a CAD program for fashion. However when i click the setup.exe option i get this message:

HARDLOCK.SYS version too old.

Then i click on ok which prompts this message:

The Win16 Subsystem was unable to enter Protected Mode, DOSX.EXE must be in your AUTOEXEC.NT and present in your PATH.

I looked AROUND and found that it might actually be a Windows NT program. Is that so? If it is, is there ANYWAY to get to work on vista by installing a patch for example or something?

Have tried changing compatibility mode in properties but didnt work.
Im running vista home edition 32 Bit.

Please help.

regards
Hi everyone,

Never mind, i got it to work. For anyones future reference or if anyone gets the same error message here is what I did.

For the error message
HARDLOCK.SYS version too old.

I got rid of it by downloading a new version of the hardlock driver. Oddly enough I found what I NEEDED in a website that provides software tools for the mining industry. Here is a link

http://www.rocscience.com/downloads/hardlock.asp.

To get rid of this message:

The Win16 Subsystem was unable to enter Protected Mode, DOSX.EXE must be in your AUTOEXEC.NT and present in your PATH.

All I had to do was DOWNLOAD new copies of the AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT from here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/39996729/b3c6083/AUTOEXEC.html?s=1 and just search for the other files you might need.

Took me a while to figure out but for someone whos not computer savvy, i think I did good

I hope this will help anyone else in the future.

Regards
Thanks for adding the answer that's very cool.Quote from: smurfette2031 on May 21, 2009, 08:53:27 PM

All I had to do was download new copies of the AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT from here:

I'm not 100% sure about this, but that could lead to problems in the near future...