I thought he is having this problem under Win98 and WinME...not XP or NT
I feel a poem coming on. :)
I don't have WinME, so I don't I don't know if my suggestion applies. But I know that it does apply to Win98.
>>I wonder if the config.sys could be improved?
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>No, but maybe the System32\Config.NT could be...
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REM CONFIG.SYS vs CONFIG.NT
>REM CONFIG.SYS is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.
>REM CONFIG.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a
>REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.
Steve Gibson