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April 28th, 2012, 11:51 PM
#1
temp file needed
A friend brought me is malware loaded computer, which I cleaned out for him. But now when he tries to play play some older DOS games he gets this error message " A temporary file needed for initialization could not be created or written to". This is a new one for me, anybody got any suggestions? I also got the same message when I tried to install some older windows games for him.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
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April 29th, 2012, 12:17 AM
#2
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Sounds to me like in the cleaning a file was deleted.
/sfc scannow might fix it or maybe a repair install.
I assume this is XP
Might be some information here that may help
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...tem-issue.html
Last edited by Ferrit; April 29th, 2012 at 12:21 AM.
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April 29th, 2012, 08:19 AM
#3
Registered User
Reload the game. "This sounds like a custom environment variable that the program uses is no longer set. The program needs the path from the environment variable to write certain TMP files." from Microsoft.
Sergeant WOTPP
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April 29th, 2012, 09:38 PM
#4
Thanks Ferrit Yes it's XP and I've already tried scannow and a repair install, neither worked. And I'm still looking into those links you gave.
Mobile, I don't think that's the problem cause I'm getting same message installing older windows games that install just fine on my XP system. Also I've tried playing other DOS games on his system that work on mine and I get same error message.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
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April 30th, 2012, 08:32 AM
#5
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Details, details, details. The more we have the easier it will be to understand what happened. What were the infectors? What utilities/processes were employed in the cleanup? What components are stated missing? What games? If these are DOS games what about just using DOSBox as a work around?
One Script to rule them all.
One Script to find them.
One Script to bring them all,
and clean up after itself.
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