Solved People Express Management Flight Simulator software 16 bit Windows Subsystem error when login as a local user account in Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 OS (Rev: 1.1)



After installed the People Express Management Flight Simulator (PEMFS) v1.02 on a Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 OS using an administrator account, the PEMFS can start normally. However, if we login using a local user account (jack) and try to run the PEMFS, the PEMFS will shown the below error message:

16 bit Windows Subsystem
C:\DOCUME~1\jack\LOCALS~1\TEMP

(same as C:\Documents and Settings\jack\Local Settings\Temp)
A temporary file needed for the initialization could not be created or could not be written to. Make sure that the directory path exists, and disk space is available. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application


The local user account, jack already had full access right to the C:\DOCUME~1\jack\LOCALS~1\TEMP directory. The error message is misleading because the temporary file needed for the initialization could not be created\written to the c:\WINDOWS\Temp folder, not the C:\DOCUME~1\jack\LOCALS~1\TEMP folder.

As I still have 20 pc to install the PEMFS, I have created the below "1_solved user account startup error.bat" file which is stored in my thumbdrive to solve the PEMFS "16 bit Windows Subsystem" startup error:

----------------- start 1_solved user account startup error.bat -----------------------

@echo off
rem JackNg, Rev: 1.0

rem Give local Users Modify, Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read and Write
rem access to %SystemRoot%\temp
rem to solve the People Express Management Flight Simulator startup error
rem when login as a local user account

c:

rem %SystemRoot% = C:\WINDOWS
rem /e = Edit ACL instead of replacing it
rem /p = Replace specified user's access rights
rem c = Change (write)
%SystemRoot%\system32\cacls %SystemRoot%\temp /e /p Users:c

----------------- end 1_solved user account startup error.bat -----------------------


Reference

[1] 16 Bit DOS Application

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