Win ME - More Conventional Memory?!?

[CliffC]

Has anybody figured out how to get more conventional memory out of Win ME?!

I have modified both the Config.sys and autoexec.bat but it renames them and creates blank files! DOH! The is plain F*&^%$# Stupid! Why have blank files?! Why even have those two files?

Any computer Guru out there with an answer?

CliffC

[brisd]

I ran into the same issue when I tried it. I think the only way is to create a boot disc and boot in DOS(!) or somehow create a dual boot for my pc, one Win95, the other WinME. Any one have any sites where I can read up on dual booting?

Been playing with the low Memory handicap, frustrating but still one of my fav games.

[Bing]

Originally posted by brisd:
Any one have any sites where I can read up on dual booting?

brisd: Try this website, third story down on home page is a primer on dual booting. Good luck:
http://www.winmag.com/windows/

Bing

[mogami]

Hi, right click on exe file. select properties and adjust memory setting.

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[Ed Cogburn]

Originally posted by Mogami:
Hi, right click on exe file. select properties and adjust memory setting.

This won't help. The problem *appears* to be WinME's refusal to allow the user to control CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. Without that, you can't optimized the system for maximum RAM in a Windows DOS box. The memory situation at the end of the boot just before Windows is run, is the "template", so to speak, that Windows uses for all DOS boxen afterwords. So, you've got to use HIMEM and EMM386 to optimize your DOS memory *before* Windows is run.