Files=40 on an XP PC

[Guest]

I have XP Media Center Edition and when I try to run an old DOS application,
I get the message that FILES=40 is missing from config.sys. I know XP uses
config.nt when running DOS programs and config.nt does have FILES=40.

Can anyone help?

 

[Husky]

create a config.sys file in the C:\ and save it with files=40.

 

[Guest]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Guest]

Hi. Thanks. I just tried that using sysedit and it worked...however now I'm
getting a message that "The system cannot open COM2 port requested by the
application. Choose close to terminate the application".

I tried going into the device manager and changing the port to COM2 and when
I tried it again, I got the same message except the words COM2 were replaced
with COM1.

I had a similar problem with this when I loaded it on Win98 years ago and
had to change EnablePowerManagement in the registry from 01 00 00 00 to 00 00
00 00 but I don't see that key in the XP registry.

Any thoughts?

 

[Richard Urban]

If your program is trying to access the COM port directly, the O/S will not
allow it to happen.

Final answer = some older programs just "will NOT" work under Windows XP.

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[Husky]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:38:01 -0700, "Shell Answer Man"

Junk the program and the config.sys. COM2 you'd have to physically stick a
modem on port 2, and way too much hardware settings to go into. com2 isn't the
normal modem port. com1 is.
To physically change the DEFAULT port, you'd have to change the boot setup. And
last I looked on this machine, it's nowhere near as simple as a P1 was. I can't
recall seeing any modem configs. They exist in device manager. But you'll need
some sort of expert, and probably some sort of switching program to send things
back to com1 [or in my case com3].
I wouldn't waste the time on it. Just browse the web for a program that does
the same thing on a newer machine.

 

[Mike Hyndman]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:38:01 -0700, "Shell Answer Man"

Junk the program and the config.sys. COM2 you'd have to physically stick a
modem on port 2, and way too much hardware settings to go into. com2 isn't the
normal modem port. com1 is.

Nah,
COM1 used to be the mouse, COM3 was the modem.
MH
remove -bats- to reply

 

[Husky]

Nah,
COM1 used to be the mouse, COM3 was the modem.

I said used to be. Check your computer history. A mouse is a recent invention.
And till Supra came out with the 9600 baud, their previous modems auto
configged to com1.

300 baud modems were all on com1..
yes 300 baud, slower than the average non typist can type.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

I said used to be. Check your computer history. A mouse is a recent invention.
And till Supra came out with the 9600 baud, their previous modems auto
configged to com1.


300 baud modems were all on com1..
yes 300 baud, slower than the average non typist can type.

In 1984, on my first PC, I had my mouse on COM1 and a rented 300baud modem
on COM2.....





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