>>With your reassurance I'll give it another shot. Have you actually done this with an app you know requires more than 150 files open?
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>Just tried it again - set it to 150, then 180 - no joy. Move the exact same code to a win98 box with FILES=200 in the config.sys and all is well. On ME got the message 'too many files open'
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>After running msconfig, making the changes and hitting apply, I am told I need to reboot, of course, for changes to take effect. On reboot I get a message saying I am running in a configuration troubleshooting mode (with an option to not show this dialog again) I guess that is just to remind me I've changed settings in the system.ini.
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>In any case, checking system.ini shows my changes took effect - just to no effect.
Did you see
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q274/5/94.ASP ?
Regards. Al
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