ntvdm.exe

C# console applications all 16bit?

Hi all, I was reading up about NTVDM.exe as I build a quick test console app and it crashed on a friends machine complaining about this EXE. As I understand it all DOS cmd windows (C# console apps included) run as 16bit not 32bit. Is this true? Does this mean all my works console app back office apps are running as 16bit rather than ...

NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction

Hi all, I have encountered a rather odd error that I do not understand. I created a C# console application that was designed to just be a test to see if my web service was working from outside my network. All it did was try and connect to the webservice, output each stage to the console and write it to a text file so they could send m...

Cannot launch 16-bit application anymore

I'm trying to debug and resolve some issues with a Win32 macro application written C++ however I'm having the strangest issue. I have to launch a 16-bit program and then simulate entering data into and have been using ShellExecute for over two years now. I haven't touched this actual code at all, but now it doesn't work. I'm doing Shel...