re: windows 200server installation Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 5:58 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Francis Are you asking why win2k needs to have the two files in the right place ?? if so this is why.. When win2k runs a 16 bit program it needs to run wowexec.exe and that in turn will load and run the win.ini and the sys.ini files that holds the info for the 16/32 bits programs the norm (legacy programs) you can read the autoexec.nt and the config.nt files with NotePad and it will show you what the files do when wowexec.exe runs.. wowexec.exe takes the place of the old pif file setup in win95 and win98 and it's now called sortcut in win2k.. Because win2k is NOT a DOS base OS it needs help with old programs that are run from DOS/win95/win98 ,most of the win98 programs will run without the wowexec because they are 32bit but not all... Hope this helps On Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 1:32 am, francis wrote: > >i am newly install 2000 server >only know for dcprmo and config > >but dns ,dhcp,gaterway ,etc are using >why thery are using what purpose > >please explain Written in response to: windows 200server installation (francis: Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 1:32 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 16 bit windows subsystem error (alfred iravas: Tue, Feb 1, 2005, 2:06 pm) re: 16 bit windows subsystem error (DEX: Tue, Feb 1, 2005, 2:51 pm) re: 16 bit windows subsystem error (alfred iravas: Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 3:15 pm) re: 16 bit windows subsystem error (DEX: Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 3:30 pm) windows 200server installation (francis: Thu, Feb 24, 2005, 1:32 am) re: windows 200server installation (DEX: Thu, Feb 24, 2005, 5:58 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum