OK, thanks for the direction.

have you tried this? Put the following statements in your Config.sys file (if there isn't one just create one in your root folder): Device=c:\windows\himem.sys /testmem:off Device=c:\windows\emm386.exe ram d=64 min=0 Dos=high,umb

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