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Comment from fred smith on 2011-12-13

2011-12-14T07:24:29Z

Thanks; renaming qb.pif by dropping the .pif extension, worked.

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Comment from tamil on 2011-07-23

2011-07-23T15:10:49Z

hi sir i wank your kind info from one question??????

i was opened TURBO C++ wizard . its warmed as unrecoverable error , why this error found plz reply me

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Comment from Gloria on 2011-01-01

2011-01-01T19:50:46Z

Thanks for your help! I no longer get the error, but now the game won't run. It seems to run for a fraction of a second, and then disappears. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Comment from Sunil on 2010-09-05

2010-09-05T09:28:18Z

I found the pif file - QB [Surprisingly it did not have the extension '.pif' in the name, although I do not hide extensions]. In Properties > Program I set the 'Cmd line' to the correct path to the file, and 'Working' to the correct path to the folder. That solved the problem.
I also ticked 'close on exit' here, & 'window' under Screen. Under 'Memory' I set 'EMS' to 'none', 'XMS' to 'auto' and ticked 'use HMA'. That made it work better I think.

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Comment from Carol on 2010-09-03

2010-09-03T09:11:58Z

My problem is a moody Turbo C++ program. I got the same error message. So I cleaned out all of the guilty pif files. What do I do now? How do I start it up?

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Comment from Adrian Henderson on 2009-05-30

2009-05-31T02:23:01Z

I deleted the pif files, it works so far. PIF files are the MS-DOS icons. When in doubt, search "*.pif," and delete corrisponding (speeled rong) .pif's from your QBasic directory.

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Comment from mohsin on 2008-11-22

2008-11-22T10:46:47Z

Dear sir,
this is mohsin from dubai when i try to start my game prince2 then coming error ( invalid startup directory please check you pif fil. choose close to terminate the application. please help me thnks

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Comment from Bob on 2008-08-16

2008-08-16T22:07:41Z

when i try to open qbasic 4.5 it says to check my pif file how to I do that? also how to i change my startup directory?

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Comment from Kristijan on 2007-11-17

2007-11-17T08:55:54Z

I am trying to get into my business folder and then "Invalid startup directory, please check your pif file. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application." Can you please tell me what to do? Thank you

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Comment from alique on 2007-08-02

2007-08-02T07:32:24Z

When i start my computer, this appears C:WINDOWS\DEFAU I.PIF and after that this msg appeared "Invalid startup directory, please check your pif file. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application."...wuts going on actually with my computer?..and sometimes..my computer hang suddenly..someone please help me..T_T

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Comment from Tristan on 2007-05-31

2007-05-31T13:16:05Z

When i go install battlefield 1942 it says 'Invalid program file name please check your pif file Choose 'Close' to terminate the application someone please help.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-12-22

2006-12-22T18:00:24Z

Looks like a virus or spyware to me. I'd scan for both.

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Comment from honey on 2006-12-14

2006-12-15T01:40:42Z

When i start my computer, this appears C:WINDOWS\DEFAU I.PIF

and C:WINDOWS\o4243127.exe

What does this mean? Can you help? I use Windows XP.Thank you....

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Comment from Mark on 2006-11-17

2006-11-18T03:22:21Z

Free basic is a great resource for running/writing basic programs on XP systems. The FBIDE interface is also highly recommended. Better than the original Qbasic.

http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/download

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Comment from Hans on 2006-07-08

2006-07-09T00:41:02Z

I, too, used Wordstar. :-)

Yes, the article applies. I'll bet you have a .pif file in the same directory as the Wordstar .exe file. Delete that and I'll bet you're good to go.

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Comment from Tom Green on 2006-07-07

2006-07-07T20:50:09Z

I have been using an old MS-DOS word processing program called WordStar 2000 (WS2000) and have probably over 1000 files in several hundred client folders. The programs work fine on my Windows 98 desktop but I recently bought a Dell laptop with Windows XP and copied the WS2000 program and all of my WS2000 folder to the new laptop. When I try to access WS2000 on my lap top I get the error message, "Invalid startup directory, please check your PIF file". WS2000 still works fine on my Win98 desktop. Is there some way that I can get WordStar 2000 to work on my new laptop? I am not a computer guru so I don't understand all that I read above. My real question is, does the article above apply to me. If it does, I will take the article and my laptop to a computer place to have them fix it. Thanks for your help. - Tom Green

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-11

2006-03-11T17:40:52Z

Should be ok. Copy it somewhere else as a backup, just in case.

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Comment from bob on 2006-03-10

2006-03-11T03:02:12Z

Is it safe to delete Qbasic.pif on Windows 98?

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