Re: PIF File

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Sometime last week" to means suggests one possible reason is one of this
month's Windows updates, which were release last Tuesday and would have
installed sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday if automatic updates are
enabled.

Consider rolling them back via Add/remove programs.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a strange occurance with one of my XP Pro machines.  We're
> running an old version of Paradox DOS for networks and some time last
> week they started getting an error:
>
> "Invalid Starting directory, please check your PIF file."
>
> I've done some searching and this is quite a rare problem.  I've deleted
> the shortcut and re-created it with no change.  No matter what I do it
> returns the same message.
>
> I even installed SP3 to see if either Autoexec.nt or one of the other
> files might be repaired.  Any ideas?
>
> Bill
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