First post, by James Nix
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Norton Utiliie's WINDOCTOR feature searches for, among other things, invalid path statements in PIF files. The default Glidos installation has two such files: GLIDOS.PIF and GLIDOSF.PIF These get copied into the TR1 directory as well as being copied to the Glidos installation directory.
Both PIF files command line is "GLIDOS.BAT". Well Windoctor sees it as invalid and offers to fix it automatically. It does this by deleting the references. Glidos then fails to start with an 'Unable to create GLIDOS.BAT" message ( that's close to the exact text).
To have and error free Windoctor run and not cause Glidos to fail after Windoctor 'fixes' things try the following. How this is done will depend on your version of Windows so I'll just state what has to be done.
1) Create a new environment variable defined as the full path to the Tombraider directory, ie:
TOMBPath C:\TOMBRAID\
2) In the Glidos installation directory (NOT the Tombraider directory), right click the GLIDOS.PIF file and select properties. The PIF files will have a file typr of "Shortcut to MS-DOS program" with no visible extension (depending on your settings).
3) Select the Program tab and change the command line from GLIDOS.BAT to:
%TOMBPath%Glidos.bat
Click OK.
4) Repeat step 2-3 for the GLIDOSF.PIF file.
5) You may have to re-start for the change to be effective.
6) Run Windoctor again. References which still show up in the restore point files (_RESTORE{......) can be 'repaired' once more to clear them out.
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Muad Dib