Now on a more helpful note I hope. Someone was concerned about the
DOS FILES= setting under Windows ME and I don't know if they got a
satisfactory answer or not. I got this from a sidebar in PC
Magazine:
"Windows ME reads Autoexec.bat and Config.sys in order to import SET
commands that define environmental variables, but it does not process
these files at start-up. DOS based Config.sys entries like FILES=
are completely ignored."
"To increase the number of files available for DOS programs, you
have to modify System.ini. Open System.ini using Notepad and locate
the [386Enh] section header. Below this header, look for a line
that begins PerVMFiles=. If you don't find such a line, insert it
just after the [386Enh] header. The value specified in this
INI-file key will be added to the default of 30."
"To obtain the equivalent of FILES=90, you would set
PerVMFiles=60. Note that the absolute maximum is 255, so PerVMFiles
should never be set higher than 225."
"For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q269030,
titled 'How to Increase Available File Handles for MS-DOS Based
Applications in Windows Millennium Edition,at
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q269/0/30.asp>
and article Q274646, titled 'Understanding the Settings in Windows
Millennium Edition Config.sys File,' at
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q274/6/46.asp>
"
I hope this is helpful to anyone puzzled about the setting.
Joe
