What are all your opinions of the Real Mode DOS patch for Windows ME available from www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000? Would you recommend using it if you want Real Mode DOS support in Windows ME? Also does it have any adverse effects on Windows ME in any way if you apply it? I'm thinking of applying it since I'd rather like real mode DOS support, but I just thought it would be useful if I was to get others' opinions of it before using it. Thanks for you opinions.

I've read that it keeps you from going into Safe mode. What's the matter with using a Startup disk?

I ran the DOS patch for 6 months. It does indeed stop you from getting into Safe Mode. One of the main reasons, apart from curiousity, I used it, was I wanted to get rid of all the crap you had accumulated after a long session on the following boot automatically. Using the patch did that very nicely until for some inexplicable reason after 2 months or so, the speed at which the commands were executed in the Autoexec . bat ground right down. So from a perky 5 - 10 second clear out on boot up. It got progressively longer and longer and LONGER. (and no it wasn't clearing more crap out). So when the above poster, Renaissance Man, made a batch file that could be put on C:\ and run from a Start Disk. I got rid of the patch and got Safe Mode back. If your interested you can look at the batch file Here at http://www.burzurq.com/ It's called DELINDEX. I'm also interested in your reasons for using the patch though.

Ah damn, now I can't play the good old DOS games under Windows ME which required s--- loads of conventional memory (this could have been solved by loading HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.exe in the CONFIG.SYS file with the patch). Now I have 3 options: 1. Create a bootdisk and run them off that 2. Apply the patch anyway and lose "Safe Mode" 3. Return to Windows 98 Looks like I'll choose option 1. Thanks for your advice anyway.