Re: Files=40 on an XP PC

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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?


"Husky" wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:51:04 -0700, "Shell Answer Man" <Shell Answer
> Man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> create a config.sys file in the C:\ and save it with files=40.
>
>
> >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?
>
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