Can't open Xy in XP

["Jay McNally" jaymcnally@xxxxxxxx]

Folks,

For the last 10 months or so XyWrite has worked flawlessly on my Compaq
Presario Win XP machine, thanks to Carl's tutoring me offline.

But this morning things are very different. When I click on the XY shortcut
that has worked perfectly all these months, I get the following message, in
a standard Windows dialog box titled "16 Bit MS-DOS Subsystem"on the blue
bar at the top of the box.

XyWrite 4
C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt  The system file is not suitable for
running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose `Close' to
terminate the application.

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There are the only things that have changed in recent times on my computer
(as far as I can tell, since two of my children, aged 15 and 19, also use
the computer):

1) Several days ago I started getting a dialog box (it may have been from
one my firewall software, or from Windows ... not sure) that said a file (I
think it was "\system32" or something along those lines was trying to get
into the computer. As I recall it, I had the option to "deny" or to
"continue" and I denied. I suspected this was virus-related. I got the
error message opon booting for probably 5 days or so, then probably
yesterday or the day before it stopped coming up.

2) I upgraded the "Clean-Up" program by Steven R. Gould to version 4. As I
understand it, "Clean-up" removes cookies, temporary files and other
internet gunk, and I think the new version goes deeper than the previous
version and don't know if it cleaned out any MS-DOS files.

Anyone got any advice on how to get XyWrite running again?

Many thanks in advance for any assistance.

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