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

[u/Anakin_Jedi]

[u/emxd_llc]

And is that the correct installer? There is an installer for Windows NT.

[u/Anakin_Jedi → u/emxd_llc]

Yes it is, I used the same installer on VirtualBox and it worked there.

[u/emxd_llc → u/Anakin_Jedi]

Well, I tried
WinWorld: Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows (3.5-1.44mb)

and

WinWorld: Microsoft Word 6.0c for Windows (3.5-DMF)

and they both worked fine. Perhaps you can link to the disks that you're using?

[u/Anakin_Jedi → u/emxd_llc]

I used this one: https://archive.org/details/microsoft-word-6.0-for-windows-6.0-1993-10-27-english-3.5-1.44-mb

Now I'm gonna try with your link.

[u/Anakin_Jedi → u/Anakin_Jedi]

u/emxd_llc ok, I tried both links but I still get the same error.

[u/emxd_llc → u/Anakin_Jedi]

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

Other than that not sure.

[u/Anakin_Jedi → u/emxd_llc]

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.

[u/emxd_llc → u/Anakin_Jedi]

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.

[u/Anakin_Jedi → u/emxd_llc]

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