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boot.ini and MaxMem property

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ToddWW

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Mar 25, 2001
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I am trying to run Visual Fox Pro 3.0 on a Win 2k Pro machine with 512 MB RAM. VFP 3.0 has a bug in that it will not start on machines with 512 MB RAM. The following Microsoft article offers a solution however for details it asks to refer to the operating system documentation. I went through Win 2k help extensively and could not find instructions. In short, the solution is to use a MaxMem statement in the boot.ini file that will limit the amount of memory used by the operating system.


If you can provide more detail on how I can accomplish what is described in the above article, I would appreciate it greatly.

Thanks.

ToddWW
 
In your boot.ini file, you should see a line similar to this:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect


Add /MAXMEM=999 to the end of this line replacing 999 with the amount (in Mb) of RAM to use. Do NOT use a value less than 8.

Ed
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Hello
i totally agree with ed that u can edit boot.ini and add a switch /maxmem:n where n is the amount of memory u want it to recognize.

All the best

Rocky
 
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