Windows 95 compatibility

[Doug]

Hey group!

I have a problem I was hoping someone could help me with... ( of course)

I have a work program that was designed for Windows 95 and they are no
longer in business so they offer no support anymore. The program is way
ahead of its time for my industry and I would like to continue using it,
while keeping my upgraded PC using Windows XP. It needs DOS to support its
full functionality which XP doesn't support.

When I try to run it, it says that "Please add "files=105" to the config.sys
file before running"... Well, its there but I still get nothing but that
message.

What can I do to get this to work?? I thought I could put the Win95 system
files on a floppy and boot up from there and execute the program from the
floppy, but it still needs that line in the config.sys.

I'm kind of stuck on this...

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

Doug

 

[Dan]

Have you considered a dual-boot with 98SE and XP? This is what I have and
it works great. I have it on two seperate hard disks and keep the
information on XP seperate from my 98SE by not swapping files between the
two hard drives. If you are careful it works really well. The 98SE
operating system does not see XP because I configured it in NTFS. 98SE is
in Fat32. The XP operating sees and can interact with the c:\ drive but I
limit that to just reading files so I won't cause configuration problems.
Finally, this may apply to you if the program works with 98SE because
Microsoft has extended critical updates for this operating system until 30
June 2006. I hope this helps and have a nice day. :>

 

[Richard Urban]

Three ways to approach this:

1. Use an older computer with Win95 installed just for this program

2. Dual boot your present computer with Win95. Don't allow Win95 to access
internet. No don't want the hassles that will occur if you do.

3. Use Microsoft Virtual PC on your current machine. Load Win95 as a guest
operating system under Virtual PC. You can start Virtual PC and run your old
program WHILE you are using the host operating system (Win XP?) for other
tasks.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Johnny Lingo]

Have you considered a dual-boot with 98SE and XP? This is what I have and
it works great. I have it on two seperate hard disks and keep the
information on XP seperate from my 98SE by not swapping files between the
two hard drives. If you are careful it works really well. The 98SE
operating system does not see XP because I configured it in NTFS. 98SE is
in Fat32. The XP operating sees and can interact with the c:\ drive but I
limit that to just reading files so I won't cause configuration problems.
Finally, this may apply to you if the program works with 98SE because
Microsoft has extended critical updates for this operating system until 30
June 2006. I hope this helps and have a nice day. :>

Or Virtual PC,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

 

[Alex Nichol]

When I try to run it, it says that "Please add "files=105" to the config.sys
file before running"... Well, its there but I still get nothing but that
message.

Add it to the windows\system32\config.nt file instead (adjust the value
already there)

 

[Doug]

Wow, I was coming on here to say thanx to those that suggested dual booting,
but I really didn't want to go through FDISK and all that, but I found this
response.... It works! Not that I don't appreciate the other replies as
well, which I do, but the program works fine with this.

Thanx so much!!

Doug