"The NTVDM has encountered an illegal instruction"

[Brenda]

I was trying to install some image editing programs, I
did just install yesterday a new driver for my lexmark
printer and today, gimp. Any ideas?

[Sharon F]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:13:39 -0800, Brenda wrote:

> I was trying to install some image editing programs, I
> did just install yesterday a new driver for my lexmark
> printer and today, gimp. Any ideas?

One of the older programs that you are installing will require a bit of
tweaking to get it to work in XP without causing that error. Some MS
Knowledge Base articles that could help to troubleshoot this are:

Troubleshooting MS-DOS-Based Programs in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314106

Entries in Config.nt or Autoexec.nt May Cause NTVDM Errors
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;156687

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Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User