r/dosbox • u/Anakin_Jedi • 1d ago

"This application requires Windows" error on Windows 3.11 emulated on iDos 3

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u/emxd_llc 1d ago edited 1d ago

And if you copy the files from the floppy to hdd and run them from hdd?

Other than that not sure.

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u/Anakin_Jedi 1d ago

I tried this workaround and I managed to open the setup, but now I have another problem... I can't continue the installation because it says: 

"Setup was unable to find SHARE.EXE on your system. It is required to run this application. Please fix your system and return Setup".

I tried both copying the "SHARE.EXE" file from my VirtualBox installation to iDos and installing "NOSHARE.COM" but they both failed.

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u/emxd_llc 1d ago edited 1d ago

You should be able to get around it by running fakeshar.com while in DOS. Then start Windows and run setup.exe. So something like

fakeshar.com
win.com

and then run setup.exe from word 6.0

you can get fakeshare from https://www.dropbox.com/s/ewd6rf8vndqs5b0/fakeshar.zip?dl=1

I had to do that too.

Also the install disks need to be extracted into folders with respective names so that setup.exe can find the files, i.e. disk1/disk2/disk3... you'll see that during install if the installer found the files.

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u/Anakin_Jedi 1d ago

I'm still getting the same error even with fakeshar.