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Disable HIMEM.SYS under MSDOS 8.0 (
Name: Guti Date: September 13, 2002 at 00:48:00 Pacific OS: Windows ME CPU/Ram: Pentium II
Comment:
How can I disable the automatically loaded HIMEM.SYS under MSDOS 8.0 (Windows ME)?
As far I know it is automatically loaded by IO.SYS, but maybe there is an easy trick/patch or setting under MSDOS.SYS to disable it.
I need to unload it, because I need QEMM in order to run DesqView!
Name: Doc Date: September 13, 2002 at 01:13:42 Pacific
Reply:
Look for and run msconfig.exe Should be in your system folder. I'm running Win98se so I'm not sure if win me still has it.
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Response Number 2
Name: Guti Date: September 13, 2002 at 02:04:34 Pacific
Reply:
The problem is that msconfig is *ONLY* a visual front-end for editing the system initialization files (config.sys, autoexec.bat, registry, win.ini, ...), so it does not work.
There is not option to disable the HIMEM.SYS load under msconfig.
Thank you anyway for your fast response Doc.
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Response Number 3
Name: gany Date: September 17, 2002 at 02:23:39 Pacific
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i want infor about dos promt
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Response Number 4
Name: jim sherwood Date: September 22, 2002 at 18:24:09 Pacific
Reply:
Change the name of himem.sys, then create a null file called himem.sys
foa a null file copy con=himem.sys (hit space once) then ctrl-z to save.
Please email a copy of WinME himem.sys and smartdrv.exe. They are the fastest MSFT has.
Check UMBPCI.sys at http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=umbpci Esp: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html
Thanks Jim Sherwood
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Response Number 5
Name: Guti Date: September 24, 2002 at 10:44:29 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Jim,
This does not work, since seems the support for XMS is built in IO.SYS, and does not uses HIMEM.SYS.
You are right the included HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.exe and SMARTDRV.exe versions are the best, and work fine under MS-DOS 7.10 ;-
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