SOLVED! Thanks, Hasit, you pointed me in the right direction. Looks like this is a program issue with Win2K, which is solved by applying the MS Office 2000 SR1 patch. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q249859 for more info.
BTW, I reloaded yet another Win2K machine...
Hasit, that's the problem. I don't know what is causing this, so I'm grasping at straws. I've loaded about 8 Win2K systems with MS Office 2000. 4 of them came with the OS loaded from Dell, 4 were in-house reformats to NTFS when we upgraded some older machines from Win98SE. Only 2 of the 8...
I have loaded MS Office 2000 on about 50 Win98 SE PC's with no insurmountable problems. However, upon attempting to load the program on some new Windows 2000 machines, I sometimes get an error where Word cannot save a (network) file, giving the message "Word cannot complete the save due to...
We tried all of the suggested solutions and none worked. We ended up reloading Windows. Interesingly, there was no "exit to dos.pif", etc. on either that machine or a sister machine (Dell GX-1) with fully functional DOS. This looks like an extremely rare error so I'll just file it...
Reghakr: Tried both solutions. c:\msdos.sys was identical to your example. Booting with Win98 system disk (no CD-ROM support), I was able to load sys c: but upon rebooting (without boot disk) DOS still did not work. Attempting to enter Windows without rebooting after running sys c: from the...
I have a machine that suddenly seems to have lost command.com. It will not boot into DOS mode, and running "command" from run will not work. Keeps saying "command.com or one of its components not found." Everything else seems to be working fine. Command.com does exist in...
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