I have noticed that when I go into DOS mode when I start my PC (Win95b), and type "mem/c/p" I'll see that one of the items listed is Dblspace, which is taking up about 100KB of conventional memory. If I choose "step-by-step confirmation", instead of "Command prompt only", I can press 'n' when it asks to load the Doublespace driver. When I do that, it says "Drivespace not loaded. You will not have access to your compressed drives." But I don't have any compressed drives! I don't know why this is loading, when it doesn't need to be there. Is there anyway to keep it from loading, besides "step-by-step confirmation"? Side note: This site looks most wonderful in the Arachne DOS Web Browser...

Did windows create a pif file for Arachne? If so have a look at the properties of the pif. Go to programs-advanced Have a look in the config.sys entry for doublespace and delete it. Hope this helps

Umm... Why look for an arachne pif? There isn't one because I was in DOS mode. And there isn't anything about drivspace or doublespace in the config.sys file.

Do this from a dos prompt: attrib -s -h -r drvspace.bin del drvspace.bin Poof.. No more drivespace loaded. I am not sure about the doublespace driver... I havent used MS-DOS 6 in a while. The filename is probably dblspace.sys or dblspace.bin. Delete it using the same method for drvspace.bin. -Michael

In reply becauce in the pif there is an option to start the program in Dos mode -in the advanced settings. So you can start your Dos proggy in windows and it will boot up in Dos. when you exit the Dos proggy it will resart windows. Simple as that.

Try typing "edit config.sys" to see if there is an entry to load Doublespace.

drvspace.bin and/or dblspace.bin are not loaded in config.sys, the are loaded by io.sys (don't edit) before the registry is processed, as michael noted, deleting these .bin files would remove the doublespace / drivespace driver from existance.