From: court475 on
I just got a new Dell laptop, and installed ProSeries 2009 tax software. The
program won't open and I get the error: "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem.
C:\ProWin09\32bit\PROSER~1.EXE The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal
instruction."

Can anyone help?
From: Rich Barry on
Try this thread

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-5039-NTVDM-CPU-illegal-instruction-.html


"court475" <court475(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just got a new Dell laptop, and installed ProSeries 2009 tax software.
>The
> program won't open and I get the error: "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem.
> C:\ProWin09\32bit\PROSER~1.EXE The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal
> instruction."
>
> Can anyone help?


From: neil on
What operating system are you running.
Neil
"court475" <court475(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1E4A8614-9C1C-4EE6-B26B-55C0A19827F9(a)microsoft.com...
>I just got a new Dell laptop, and installed ProSeries 2009 tax software.
>The
> program won't open and I get the error: "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem.
> C:\ProWin09\32bit\PROSER~1.EXE The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal
> instruction."
>
> Can anyone help?